KVIK

Etymology: see *

                                               Kvikkalkul

MAC NAME: Kvikkalkul                                      

VERSION: -                                 

README:
"This is a Power Mac compiler for the computer language Kvikkalkul.  As you'll see when exploring the documentation there isn't much justification for learning it and it was probably a hoax to begin with, but it exists now no matter what the Swedish government may care.  I won't try to justify a language composed of smileys.....

What is kvikkalkul?  It appears to be a sort of teletype-based embedded-systems language, supposedly designed in Sweden during the 1950's for submarine computer systems.  More likely it's a troll that some hacker with an extremely sick sense of humor cooked up to try and top Intercal as the world's worst computer language, a task at which it succeeds handily."

AUTHORS:
Unix:
Asher Hoskins
mac port:
Brian Connors
    
COPYRIGHT:
(c) 1994

INTERNET SITES:
Info-Mac
UMich
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/mac/development/languages/

compiler:
ftp://ftp.lth.se/pub/netnews/alt.sources/volume94/nov/

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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:35:26 +0200
To: "Antreas P. Hatzipolakis" <xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr>
From: Per.Mildner@CSD.UU.SE (Per Mildner)

>I have a question about the name:
>What is the etymology of TRICIA?
It is from the book The Hitchhikers Guide (Tricia has been known as MacMillan as well).

>By the way the same question about a swedish  prog. language: Kvikkalkul.
I do not know, but kvik sounds like kvick which means fast/speedy and of course kalkul sound like kalkyl which is the same as calculus.

Per Mildner                      Per.Mildner@CSD.UU.SE
Computing Science Dept.          http://www.csd.uu.se/~perm/
Uppsala University               tel: +46 18 181049
Box 311, S-751 05 Uppsala,Sweden fax: +46 18 511925