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> 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 it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite.


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rolandogyesterday at 11:18 PM

Oh wow! That's amazing! "I came to learn Computer Science, but I left with good bedside manners".

strbeanyesterday at 7:00 PM

Immediately thought of INTERCAL :)