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Perhaps my favorite paragraph on all of wikipedia: INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: i

Perhaps my favorite paragraph on all of wikipedia: INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as "READ OUT", "IGNORE", "FORGET", and modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite. Although this feature existed in the original INTERCAL compiler, it was undocumented.

xyzzy123 13y ago
COME FROM also allows elegant aspect-oriented programming :)
- _pmf_ 13y ago
  > COME FROM also allows elegant aspect-oriented programming :) I used to make fun of Intercal, until I had to do with a Simulink model that made use of FROM blocks. It's just as retarded as you'd expect. It's as if someone intentionally decided to take a step back from structured programming, and then some more steps back.
- im3w1l 13y ago
  Sounds like a listener to me.
  - xyzzy123 13y ago
    Not quite, a listener isn't supposed to steal your thread of control indefinitely...