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- This directory contains the documentation (such as it is) for INTERCAL.
-
- READ.ME
- This file.
-
- intercal.ms:
- Masters for the INTERCAL manual (needs pic to render illos)
- This has been carefully proofread against the original paper
- version.
-
- THEORY
- Implementation notes on the C-INTERCAL implementation.
-
- chip.spec:
- Christian Brunschen's spec sheet for the INTERCAL chip.
-
- Note 1: The TeX version we formerly distributed has been dropped. The
- combination of groff and pic does an effective job of rendering the
- illustrations and is easier to maintain.
-
- Note 2: The supplemental reference manual, ick.txt, has been merged
- into the intercal manual. (It is still possible to generate the
- original; see the Makefile.)
-
- Note 3: The flat-ASCII directly transcribed from the paper original is
- also gone. You can regenerate something very close to it with \&`make
- original.txt'. The differences will be (a) page breaks may fall in
- different places, (b) the circuit diagrams present in the paper
- version but absent in the ASCII transcription are instead poorly
- approximated with ASCII boxology, (c) every "butchered Roman numeral"
- is preceded and followed by a line break, (d) the hanging-indent list
- of Princeton compiler options is has all marks above each description,
- rather than to its left.
-
- The aim of these changes was to reduce to one the number of manual masters that
- need to be maintained.
-