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- This is a Power Mac compiler for the computer language Kvikkalkul. As
- you'll see when exploring the documentation there isn't much
- justification for learning it and it was probably a hoax to begin with,
- but it exists now no matter what the Swedish government may care. I
- won't try to justify a language composed of smileys.
-
- The source code (including a couple of necessary UNIX headers, which I
- renamed for reasons I could explain but really don't understand myself)
- is in :kvik:src. Some example kvikkalkul code is in :kvik:kviksrc.
- Documentation for this inexcusable kludge is in :kvik:text. Necessary
- files for compilation on a C compiler are in :kvik:runtime libs. Some
- of it is even interesting. Don't believe the business about capital
- punishment though.
-
- What is kvikkalkul? It appears to be a sort of teletype-based
- embedded-systems language, supposedly designed in Sweden during the
- 1950's for submarine computer systems. More likely it's a troll that
- some hacker with an extremely sick sense of humor cooked up to try and
- top Intercal as the world's worst computer language, a task at which it
- succeeds handily.
-
- Who knows; it may prove useful to some sick minds out there.
-
- How to use:
-
- -Start up the compiler.
- -Make sure the compiler
- -Enter the name of the file (should be in the same folder) into the
- command line.
- -Compile the k.out.c file with the two header files indicated in the
- compiled code. Easiest to copy the Runtime Libs folder and put
- k.out.c in there, then the project file and whatever as well.
-
- System Requirements:
-
- -A PowerMac
- -System 7.1.2 or greater
-
- This will not run on a standard Mac. I didn't feel like attempting a fat
- binary and I'm too damn lazy to remember which files to include for the
- 68k version. I could do it; I probably won't. In any case, it should
- compile clean for a regular Mac anyway; I didn't change much.
-
- Any problems or comments? Email connorbd@[cleo,bcvms].bc.edu.
-
- Bugs to the author, Asher Hoskins, ukrhosk@prl.philips.co.uk unless they
- have something to do with my Mac code.
-
- Brian Connors
- Boston College
- Maintainer of the Free Development Systems on the Mac FAQ
-