INTERCAL has made many contributions to the state-of-the-art for numerous modern languages. My personal favorite sides with the author with the implementation of COME FROM, which is indisputably a vast improvement over the much maligned GOTO. It's so handy that it's been ported to Python! [0]

[0] http://entrian.com/goto/

Java implementation here:

http://progopedia.com/implementation/j-intercal/

Now, are there any true innovators out there that want to put a REST-ful web framework on it? ;)

Oh... my... God...

Hearing about INTERCAL always reminds me of this: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programm...

That was hilarious. Especially the precedence section. The brilliance behind INTERCAL's design also inspired work in the functional programming domain:

http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/#what_is

The lambda calculus without the lambda operation. Brilliant improvement!

Now we just need a video of Wirth's reaction to a demo of these.

Perl doesn't have boolean types and you have to end class definitions with 1; Most languages are better than Perl.

But what is true in Perl is well-defined: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Truth-and-Falsehood

And modules doesn't have to end with 1;. They must return a true value :)

Added: If one really want booleans, there is [1].

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/boolean

Modules, not classes. Also, while Python has True and False, 0 is falsy and all other numbers are truthy. There are a lot of problems with Perl, but picking on these two is a bit silly. They belong to the class of superficial issues that all languages suffer from.

Perl is a terrific language. When's the last time you've used it?

I disagree. Not for quick scripts.

My favorite part, at the end:

...With INTERCAL, you can regularly type your name in your program. Especially if your name is FORGET.

Author

Jean Forget ...

Is this article actually serious? I can't help but think it is satirical.

I'll give you a link and let you guess:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/