"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."
" Pico ("Picture Composition") is described in Gerard Holzmann's book, "Beyond Photography - the Digital Darkroom" (published by Prentice Hall). Pico takes an expression, similar to assignment statements in the C language, and applies that expression to every pixel in the image. This file contains some demonstration expressions."
"The Macintosh implementation of Quinta is an interactive interpreter with a text window used for all input and output. Upon executing the Quinta application, there is a pause as the dictionary is built. Then, it is your turn to act....
The design of Quinta has been influenced by a number of different sources. It was originally designed to be an object oriented version of Forth. I have also included similarities to Lisp, Smalltalk and the HP-28 calculator programming language. However, although Quinta has received some inspiration from the excellent Hewlett Packard 28 calculator line, it is not intended to be an emulator for those products (or any other products/languages)."
