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	The Kvikkalkul Programming Language
		Program pointers cannot be used as ordinary operands in assignment statements and such.
		Kvikkalkul is still in use today, at least that was the case in 1991.
		It's still a language without letters and the smiley notation for operators in still in use, though for source text the angle brackets may be used instead of parentheses and + and = are valid substitutes for the -/- and :: operators.
	kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu /~kamikaze/doc/kvik.html (2680 words)

	Kvikkalkul Programming Language Encyclopedia Article @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kvikkalkul's origins are probably not as claimed, but instead it was likely invented as a joke, like Swedish Navy.
		Kvikkalkul was allegedly developed on Categories systems, and used only the "figures" mode, so the only characters in Kvikkalkul source are whitespace, digits, and a handful of punctuation characters.
		All of this is reasonably normal for a mainframe language of the era, but looks a little USENET when expressed without letters.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Kvikkalkul_programming_language (769 words)

	Kvikkalkul '95, the New Language
		In 1957 the Swedish Navy developed the language 'kvikkalkul' for real-time control in submarines.
		It is still a language without letters, though it is not entered in Baudot code on paper tape anymore.
		Visual KvikKalkul is an implementation of KvikKalkul '95 that is encapsulated in a user-friendly programmer-hostile window environment in which you have to wear out a mouse or two to write a trivial application that requires 16MByte to run and that takes 5 minutes just to load.
	www.cadenhead.org /book/homepage24/kvikkalkul/origin4.html (793 words)

	Getting Started
		A programming language is a standardized method for expressing instructions to a computer.
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		It is an event driven programming language centered around a forms engine that enables rapid development of graphical user interface applications and a database object library (ADO).
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		Program pointer 0 is the default subroutine return address.
		There is also a conditional jump, which consists of two operands separated by a relational operator followed by an ordinary jump statement.
		KVIKKALKUL TODAY I left the Swedish Navy in 1958 and now I live in a country whose name I rather not tell.
	www.miranda.org /~jkominek/rot13/kvik/misc/posting1 (2473 words)

	The One, The Only... TURING TAR PIT!
		The original Turing Tarpit (officially known as the Bad Languages Page until a very poorly advertised name change) was posted at my website at Boston College, and as of this writing is still there thanks to the benign neglect of its sysadmin Stefan.
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		This is an interpreter for the programming language SORTA, a systems and numerical programming language with features sorta from C, sorta from FORTH, and sorta from Ada.
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		The purpose of this program is to read two integers, taking them as signed integers in twos complement format, and to write their absolute values.
		Its creator's intention was to construct a language for which a very short compiler could be written while still being possible to perform any programming task with it.
		Another pearl in that museum is kvikkalkul, a language pretendedly used by the Swedish army in submarine weapons guidance programs in the 50's but most likely a joke.
	www.formauri.es /personal/pgimeno/compurec/EsotericLanguages.php (3135 words)

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	ROT13
		It is used to enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open -- e.g., for posting things that might offend some readers, or spoilers.
		A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and decoding.
		Hence by comparing which set of letters is predominant, you can make an awfully good guess as to which type of text you are dealing with.
	www.miranda.org /~jkominek/rot13 (465 words)

	Esoteric Programming Languages: K (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A language allegedly used by the Swedish Navy in the 1950s (which would make it even older than INTERCAL) and made known to the world through anonymous postings on alt.folklore.computers.
		Its character set consists only of digits and a few symbols, and its only data types are pointers and fixed-point numbers ranging from -1 to 1 exclusive.
		Kvikkalkul has no comments, to prevent the risk of them being inconsistent with the code.
	smjg.port5.com /wwwep/languages/a-z/k.html (125 words)

	Kvikkalkul-to-C Translator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first project to be created after Kvikkalkul returned to the public eye in 1994 was kvik, a "Kvikkalkul Compiler" by Asher Hoskins, whose e-mail address at the time was ukrhosk@prl.philips.co.uk.
		A few weeks ago somebody posted a description of a Swedish military programming language called Kvikkalkul to alt.folklore.computers.
		Mostly notes I made during development, but includes a list of all standard library routines and the two news postings that brought knowledge of kvikkalkul to the world (the first of which, 'posting1', is a useful Kvikkalkul manual).
	www.cadenhead.org /book/homepage24/kvikkalkul/kvik2c.html (240 words)

	Lennart's Kvikkalkul page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During the late fifties the Swedish Navy used a very peculiar programming language for embedded control on their submarines.
		This posting was followed by a second one and some people might have seen the third one with an example program.
		This port and info about related languages can be found at The One, The Only...
	www.xs4all.nl /~lennartb/kvikkalkul.html (181 words)

	Lioncity Web Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		This program was developed while the author was a member of the Clarkson faculty, using the Z200 provided by the school.
	vega.soi.city.ac.uk /~dm511/bgsurf/28-PRGRM.html (6323 words)

	Learn more about Kvikkalkul programming language in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Learn more about Kvikkalkul programming language in the online encyclopedia.
		You are here: Online Encyclopedia > Kvikkalkul programming language
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /k/kv/kvikkalkul_programming_language.html (151 words)

	Esoteric Programming Languages: I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		(Yes, that's really what it stands for!) Often regarded as the world's first esoteric language, though Kvikkalkul is rumoured to predate it.
		Though it claims to be capable of anything that any other language can do, the original version of the language restricts acceptable input to numbers with the digits spelled out, and output to an extended version of Roman numerals.
		Although the language has no input/output capabilities, Iota is essentially Turing-complete.
	smjg.port5.com /wwwep/languages/a-z/i.html (160 words)

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	www.pdc.kth.se /~jas/retro/retromuseum.html (1637 words)

	[99 Bottles of Beer] - Section K
		K Kermit Kiev KiXtart Korn Shell KUIP Kvikkalkul
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		Kvikkalkul version of 99 bottles of beer Laurent Vogel, http://lvogel.free.fr the actual Kvikkalkul code starts after after the line below.
	www.info.univ-angers.fr /pub/gh/hilapr/beers/schade/k.html (304 words)

	Vietnamese English French Chinese dictionary - Tu dien Anh Phap Viet Trung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		programming language said to have been devised by the Swedish
		Kvikkalkul's only data type is the signed fixed-point
		Kvikkalkul had a probabilistic jump operator which, if
	vdict.com /kvikkalkul,6,0.html (169 words)

	Language list - Esolang
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		Esoteric programming languages on C2 WikiWeb (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EsotericProgrammingLanguage) has some decent material.
		Open Directory Project's Obfuscated Programming Languages section (http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Obfuscated/) is another collection of links to esoteric programming pages.
	esoteric.voxelperfect.net /wiki/Language_list (164 words)

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		Showing off such cyberlinguistic horrors as Intercal and Kvikkalkul.
	www.computer-webdir.com /programming/languages/turing/p__1294.html (72 words)

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	Kvikkalkul - Esolang
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		kvikkalkul is an esoteric programming language which was supposedly developed by the Swedish navy in the fifties, though it is generally believed to be a hoax.
		It made its appearance on the internet in 1994 when it was posted anonymously on alt.folklore.computers.
	esoteric.voxelperfect.net /wiki/Kvikkalkul (101 words)

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