If you think GOTO is a bad idea, you’ll just hate COME FROM, although that was from a later version of INTERCAL. Here’s the example program from the user’s manual: 1 DO (5) NEXT 2 (5 ...

The concept of taking a programming language and twisting it into a peculiar inside joke is not new. The first and still highly regarded example is INTERCAL, designed in 1972 by Princeton ...

INTERCAL. This was started ... Unlambda, for example, uses a lot of different characters. Here’s a “cat” program in Unlambda: The compiler doesn’t care. Python is different.