The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code

Published for the first time: the Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code It is with great excitement that we share the original INTERCAL-72 compiler source code, as both scans and transcriptions (see below). INTERCAL was created by Don Woods (previously interviewed here) and Jim Lyon as undergrads at Princeton in an infamous late-night session after freshman finals in 1972. Don recently rediscovered a print-out, on green-barred, continuous-feed pages, of the SPITBOL source code for the original compiler. If the legend holds true, this code had not been run since Woods and Lyon's Princeton days. Sean Haas (of the Advent of Computing podcast) and I transcribed the code from these scans, proof-reading each others' interpretations of fading characters. Haas has also produced a refined, runnable version of the script. INTERCAL ("Compiler Language with No Pronounceable Acronym") is the first language that can unequivocally be called an esolang. While previous languages had odd designs a ... Read full article.