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Published for the first time: the Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code

It is with great excitement that we share the original INTERCAL-72 compiler source code, as both scans and transcriptions (see below). INTERCAL was created by Don Woods (previously interviewed here) and Jim Lyon as undergrads at Princeton in an infamous late-night session after freshman finals in 1972. Don recently rediscovered a print-out, on green-barred, continuous-feed pages, of the SPITBOL source code for the original compiler. If the legend holds true, this code had not been run since Wood...

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