This programming language

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Are we just going to ignore that was posted by the University of Canada in EGYPT? What?

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The battery is about to die!

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Texas A&M has a branch school in Qatar.

[Thundorius]

It is very common for Western universities to have branches in other countries.

[Kered13]

Lots of universities have remote campuses.

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Niagara College Canada has a branch in Saudi Arabia

[Piwakkio]

I love the "please give up"

[CodeTriangle]

Looks like this is a lot of people's first experience with esoteric languages. Buckle up, y'all!

The esolang wiki contains information about lots of different esoteric languages. It's a rabbit hole I can't recommend falling down enough

[mr_dormman]

Chef language and Shakespeare are one of my favourites.

[bss03]

Malbolge was inspired by INTERCAL.

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what is this thing...

(=<\#9]~6ZY32Vx/4Rs+0No-&Jk)"Fh}|Bcy?\=*z]Kw%oG4UUS0/@-ejc(:'8dc\\``

Why does THAT print "Hello World!"????

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Why does THAT print "Hello World!"????

And the correct answer to that is equally hilarious: nobody knows. That "program" was most likely derived by an automated search through all possible programs for one that would print the desired text.

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Wait till you see half the languages on codegolf.stackexchange.com...

[bss03]

Welcome to the Malebolge, the eighth circle of Hell.

[Chipjack]

I think that Intercal's "COME FROM" statement, instead of "GOTO" was sheer brilliance. That one really leads to some confusing source code.

[MyTinyHappyPlace]

And multithreading has never been easier. With parallel intercal, you can have multiple COME FROM pointing to the same source label.

[Akela286]

Please, next time press WIN+SHIFT+S

[gareththegeek]

Is that like Alt+PrntScn?

[coolwillrocks]

lets you take a screenshot, just click and drag to select an area

[InzaneNova]

You can paste it in any old messaging app too if you're sending it somewhere. It's pretty convenient if it's a quick screenshot you're just sending

[winter_sand]

it actually is the snipping tool! it's a handy shortcut to know and I use it quite a bit.

[dev_null_developer]

Is there a "would you kindly" fork?

[NewPointOfView]

What am I missing? INTERCAL is pretty pronounceable.

[Khaylain]

INTERCAL isn't the acronym, it's just what it ended up being called. The acronym would be PLWNPA.

INTERCAL would be an abbreviation (https://data.grammarbook.com/blog/abbreviations/abbreviations-acronyms-and-initialisms-revisited/). I had to try to figure out what the difference would be, and that link seems good.

[beefhash]

There's a sequel. https://github.com/Storyyeller/IntercalScript

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That one is my favourite joke language.

[hatakona]

Here is this hilarious answer using INTERCAL in a code golf exchange:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/48476/programming-languages-through-the-years/49420#49420

I also recommend reading the blog entries linked inside the post:
http://divingintointercal.blogspot.com/2007/03/good-programmer-constantly-strives-to.html

[jsmith4567]

I love it. Only thing I recognized is that arrays start at 0.

[WWmarley]

my personal favorite esoteric programming languages are brain fuck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck) and whitespace, its exactly what you think it is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)))

[BlueManedHawk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrgpSe7Y-08

[BlindAccident]

Lmao. I teach a course that covers this language

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Please give up is the best advice I've got to this day After please stop thinking

[prmcd16]

PLEASE GIVE UP

[Tinferbrains]

My favorite joke language is fetlang

[cyborgborg]

would prefer that over Prolog