Jim Lyon and Don Woods created INTERCAL, one of the hardest coding languages to learn, in 1972 as a satire of several computer languages. 'Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym.' was the first moniker given to it. INTERCAL includes various features that aim to frustrate programmers. ...
Most people in the world are multilingual, and everybody could be; no one is rigorously excluded from another's language community except through lack of time and effort. Different languages protect and nourish the growth of different cultures, where different pathways of human knowledge can be ...
have also built computer language parsers, written device drivers, designed communications protocols, written parts of operating systems, and analyzed musical harmony. Combining all that with the large number of enterprise systems I’ve written, it means that I’ve worked on pretty ...
, but certainly not eye candy for the masses. Again, adding all the features, took quite a bit of coding in C++. The D-day finally came and we were all tensed. We tried to market as best as we could. If we pulled-in only the “geek crowd” and some senior lecturers, then it w...