Kvikkalkul is an esoteric programming language ostensibly developed by the Swedish Navy in the 1950s and used on the SABINA computer.
Kvikkalkul was allegedly developed on Baudot code systems, and used only the "figures" mode, so the only characters in Kvikkalkul source are whitespace, digits, and a handful of punctuation characters.
Among esoteric programming languages Kvikkalkul is unusual in being neither hopelessly unusable nor very minimal.
KVIKKALKUL - Definition(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Assuming it existed, Kvikkalkul is so much a bondage-and-discipline language that it is, in its own ways, even more bizarre than the deliberate parody language INTERCAL.
Kvikkalkul allows no comments - they might not correspond with the code.
Kvikkalkul had a probabilistic jump operator which, if given a negative probability, would act like a COME FROM.
The name kvikkalkul was believed to be a pun on Plankalkuel, the first high level language that was developed by Konrad Zuse.
Kvikkalkul has hardly anything in common with Plankalkuel, but both were high-level languages and the only high-level languages in the world at that time.
Kvikkalkul was not designed to make it easy to write programs, but rather to make it next to impossible to write programs that more or less appeared to work without thinking.
The mere exis 0K.tence of SABINA and the programming language 'kvikkalkul' was and still is top secret.
KVIKKALKUL TODAY I left the Swedish Navy in 1958 and now I live.in a country whose name I rather not tell.
Article 41933 of alt.folklore.computers: Message-ID: andlt;151327Z28101994 at anon.penet.fiandgt; Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: an31517 at anon.penet.fi Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 15:11:18 UTC Subject: 1000000 Hail Mary's in kvikkalkul Lines: 55 I got many requests for a real program in kvikkalkul.
Kvikkalkul - Definition of Kvikkalkul by Webster's Online Dictionary(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Kvikkalkul - /kveek`kahl-kool'/ A deliberately cryptic programming language said to have been devised by the Swedish Navy in the 1950s as part of their abortive attempt at a nuclear weapons program.
Kvikkalkul's only data type is the signed fixed-point fractional number, i.
Dealings with the Real World that require numbers outside that range are done with functions that notionally map that range to a larger range (e.
The Baudot code, named after its inventor Émile Baudot, is a character set predating EBCDIC and ASCII and used originally and primarily on teleprinters.
It has few capabilities, and thus there are few restrictions to be kept in mind.
It occured to me one day in late April of 1997 that there is no page on the net that exists for the explicit purpose of showing off cyberlinguistic horrors such as Intercal and Kvikkalkul as a collection.
If you are under the age of 12, suffer from nightmares, or are offended by adult programming language, Turn Back Now.
Lenguaje de programación de Kvikkalkul(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Kvikkalkul es un lenguaje de programación de la computadora desarrollado ostensibly por la marina sueca en los años 50 y usado en la computadora de SABINA.
Vino a la fama en 1994 en que alguien hizo un poste anónimo al USENET con respecto le.
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Computing (FOLDOC) - kvikkalkul(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Assuming it existed, Kvikkalkul is so much a
Kvikkalkul's only data type is the signed fixed-point
Kvikkalkul had a probabilistic jump operator which, if
vdict.com /i/6/kvikkalkul.html (157 words)
Sillas de montar calientes(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
La verdad no esperaba que nadie lo acertara pero si que esperaba que la gente participase con lo que fuera (gracias David; te devuelvo algo de referer-good-karma :-).
La verdad es que no me dan muchas ganas de desvelar el secreto pero bueno aqui esta: Kvikkalkul.
Por cierto el codigo que aparecia era un pequeño programa que hice que simplemente displayaba "kvikkalkul : driving boats since 1957", y estaba generado con un interprete de kvikkalkul que he hecho en java.
weblogs.javahispano.org /page/suso (1487 words)
Lennart's Kvikkalkul page(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Just ask the Swedish Navy and they'll tell you that it was a joke.
Kvikkalkul started its public carreer in 1994 when an anonymous
This posting was followed by a second one and some people might have seen the third one with an example program.
In 1998 KTH had nearly 11,000 undergraduate students, 1,300 postgraduate students, and 2,900 staff, making it the largest of Sweden's six universitites of technology.
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Cute, that was littered with wget progress indicators!
>The mere exis > 0K.tence of SABINA and the programming language 'kvikkalkul' was and -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george@galis.org From dan at langille.org Thu Sep 2 07:10:51 2004 From: dan at langille.org (Dan Langille) Date: Thu Sep 2 06:10:53 2004 Subject: [nycbug-talk] the new site.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, G.Rosamond wrote: > We are at the bar after Ike's awesome meeting on Jails, and of course, > as the bar has does have nice wifi access, we have managed to put up > the new site.
