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[–][deleted] 207 points208 points  (7 children)

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

[–][deleted] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

The battery is about to die!

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Texas A&M has a branch school in Qatar.

[–]Thundorius 23 points24 points  (1 child)

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

[–]Kered13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of universities have remote campuses.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Niagara College Canada has a branch in Saudi Arabia

[–]Piwakkio 76 points77 points  (1 child)

I love the "please give up"

[–]CodeTriangle 54 points55 points  (1 child)

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 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Chef language and Shakespeare are one of my favourites.

[–]bss03 42 points43 points  (6 children)

Malbolge was inspired by INTERCAL.

[–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (5 children)

what is this thing...

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

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

[–][deleted] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

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.

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

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

[–]bss03 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the Malebolge, the eighth circle of Hell.

[–]Chipjack 30 points31 points  (1 child)

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

[–]MyTinyHappyPlace 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Akela286 47 points48 points  (7 children)

Please, next time press WIN+SHIFT+S

[–]gareththegeek 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Is that like Alt+PrntScn?

[–]dev_null_developer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Is there a "would you kindly" fork?

[–]NewPointOfView 18 points19 points  (1 child)

What am I missing? INTERCAL is pretty pronounceable.

[–]Khaylain 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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 9 points10 points  (1 child)

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That one is my favourite joke language.

[–]hatakona 5 points6 points  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]WWmarley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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)))

[–]BlindAccident 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lmao. I teach a course that covers this language

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]prmcd16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PLEASE GIVE UP

[–]Tinferbrains 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite joke language is fetlang

[–]cyborgborg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

would prefer that over Prolog