From 1801251bb7b33b4bcc5892675d6a9781a690d751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:08:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Initial checkin of Makefile.in, as we autoconfiscate. --- src/Makefile.in | 22 +++++ src/NEWS | 250 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 272 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/Makefile.in create mode 100644 src/NEWS diff --git a/src/Makefile.in b/src/Makefile.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58d931b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/Makefile.in @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# +# Utility productions for the INTERCAL distribution +# +VERSION = 0.16 +MANIFEST = `sed intercal-$(VERSION).shar) + +clean: + rm -f intercal-$(VERSION).shar intercal-$(VERSION).tar intercal-$(VERSION).tar.gz + diff --git a/src/NEWS b/src/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b5818d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,250 @@ + NEW IN THIS RELEASE + + Release 0.16 (by Brian Raiter and Eric S. Raymond) 26 May 1997 + +This is the 25th-anniversary release of INTERCAL. This language, conceived +in irony a quarter century ago today, has outlasted many more serious and +high-minded essays in computer language design. This fact should give us +pause to reflect, or possibly frighten the crap out of us. Or both. + +1. Corrected manual bugs. + +2. Fixed over-enthusiastic install production in the Makefile. + +3. DO PLEASE is no longer accepted (Brian Raiter pointed out that the + manual does not sanction it). + +4. Fixed various bugs in the optimizer. + +5. Incorporated fixes made by William Walter Patterson for bugs that + appeared when multiple files are given on the command line. + +(The following changes are due to Brian Raiter) + +6. The system library is now available for TriINTERCAL (all bases, 3 to 7). + The compiler has been updated to use the right library automagically. + +7. The error 774 feature has been brought into conformance with the + Princeton compiler. The odds are now a flat 10% (but still 0% with -b). + +8. The compiler has been modified to allocate memory dynamically, and + the hard-coded limits on program size and number of variables has + been removed. Programs are now only limited by the amount of + available memory. + +9. Array output now fflushes after outputting newlines. + +10. Two minor bug fixes: one in wimpmode input, which was clamping + input to the signed integer range, and one in politesse checking. + The latter was causing programs to be recognized as impolite only + if their ratio was less that one-sixth, not one-fifth. (Fixing this + also necessitated adding a few PLEASEs to pit/rot13.i.) + +11. Several new programs have been tossed into the pit. + + Release 0.15 (by Eric S. Raymond) 20 Jun 1996 + +1. Switched the INTERCAL manual master to mgm in order to be able to handle + section crossreferences properly. The manual has now been carefully + proofread against the paper version by ESR and seems to match. It's + also been independently proofread for typos by Brian Raiter. + +2. The optimizer now does complete analysis and evaluation of constant + expressions at compile time. + +3. Added optimization templates for ~, |, &, ^ expressions. Also added + |, &, ^ idioms to the system library, and documented them. + +(The following changes are due to Brian Raiter) + +4. Every one of the INTERCAL-72 messages is now emitted when appropriate. + including the previously un-emitted E000, E197, and E200 (and see below). + +5. A close reading (while proofing) of the sections of the manual on + error messages seems to indicate that splatted lines were only + splatted in the default listing printed after a successful + compile. (This seems to be a standard feature of IBM compilers; I + remember that RPG did this as well.) My understanding of the manual is + when the syntactically offensive line is encountered at runtime, it is + printed as error E000. I have modified the code to do this. + +6. I have fixed INTERCAL in order to add another bug. Namely, I have + implemented the BUG/NOBUG option in the Princeton compiler. By + default, there is a chance that INTERCAL will randomly insert error + E774 into your executable. (The odds are 1/128 per statement, not + counting COME FROMs. Is there any way to find out what the + Princeton compiler's odds were?) The new option -b turns this + feature off. + +7. The new file pit/lib/numio.i contains routines for wimpmode I/O. + These routines are documented in the file pit/lib/numio.doc. + It is my earnest hope that C-INTERCAL programmers everywhere will + flock to these handy routines, and C-INTERCAL users will thus no + longer need to fear that they might succumb to the foul and awful + temptation to use the dastardly +wimpmode option. + + Release 0.14 (by Eric S. Raymond) 9 Jun 1996 + +1. The documentation has been reorganized and cleaned up (you can now + format either a C-INTERCAL or INTERCAL-72 manual from the same master). + The diagrams in the paper original have been transcribed as pic figures. + See doc/READ.ME for details. + +2. Yet more code. The pit now includes a second random-number generator, + a ROT13 filter, and even two programs in TriINTERCAL! + +3. Louis Howell's corrected system library is now included. + +4. The distribution is now formally GPLed. + + Release 0.13 (by Eric S. Raymond) 5 Jun 1996 + +1. I folded in patches by Brian Raiter that port + this code to Linux, ANSIfies it, and enables it to use flex. Note: This + version has been tested on Linux and SunOS but not yet elsewhere. + +2. Another piece of nontrivial INTERCAL code has been found! (Doubtless + hell is freezing over even as I write.) We've added to the pit the + `beer' program by Matt DiMeo , courtesy of the + infamous Beer List (URL:http://www.ionet.net/~timtroyr/funhouse/beer.html). + + Release 0.12 (by Eric S. Raymond) 22 Mar 1995 + +1. The code now compiles and runs under Linux, using bison and lex. It does + *not* yet work with flex; C.P. Osborne's patches for 0.11 turned out not + to be sufficient (at least for flex 2.4.6 under Linux using the -l option). + See the BUGS list. + +2. Note 3 under 0.11 was incorrect. We're in conformance after all. + +3. The politesse check is a little smarter about programs too small to + conform to the 1/5-to-1/3 criterion. All the pit programs have been + checked for conformance. Also, the politesse error message now tells + you the offending program's line count. + + Release 0.11 (by Eric S. Raymond) 24 Sep 1994 + +1. Incorporated changes by Jan-Pieter Cornet for + magical inclusion of the system library. These address an outstanding bug + + 2. (SS) The `system library' should be precompiled and `linked' to user + written code, at least optionally. Doing this with the current compiler + presents a few problems. + + which has accordingly been removed from the BUGS file. They also fix a + previously unknown bug; due to a minor oversight in the lexer, it was not + possible to ABSTAIN FROM WRITING IN or READING OUT. Jan also contributed + a test program that demonstrates gerund abstention. + +2. Despite the obvious appeal of the idea, and much discussion on + alt.lang.intercal, I decided *not* to add Klingon; maintaining two parallel + grammars just so the compiler could support SVO and OSV languages would be + too painful. There was also a minor mess near case-sensitivity in the + digits. The workaround kluges I was offered instead failed to satisfy. + +3. We fess up to a violation of the INTERCAL-72 standard. That implementation, + instead of accepting an entire multiple-digit number per line of input, + expected one digit per *card image* (input line). It is unclear how + INTERCAL-72 programs ever managed to input more than one number. + +4. Added patches by C.P.Osborne to make the lexer work + using flex, for Linux and BSD/386 support. I didn't use his error-reporting + patch, though; instead, I changed the parser to catch errors at logical-line + level. I also kept the N in `RESUBNIT'; this is a carefully preserved + feature of INTERCAL-72. + +5. Volapuk digits are now recognized on input. TO DO: Recognize Volapuk + keywords, including gerunds. + + Release 0.10 (by Eric S. Raymond) 9 Sep 1994 + +1. It is now possible to undo a line-number abstention with a gerund + reinstatement, or undo a gerund abstention with a line-number + reinstatement. In previous versions, gerund abstention/reinstatements and + line-number abstention/reinstatements were independent of each other. + +2. After release 0.5, I wrote in the TO DO list as follows: + + 2. (ESR) Input format internationalization -- allow WRITE IN input digits in + major languages such as Nahuatl, Tagalog, Sanskrit, and Basque. + + The twisted loons in the alt.folklore.computers crowd loved this idea, + and I actually got sent digit lists for Nahuatl, Tagalog, Sanskrit, and + Basque -- also, Kwakiutl, Georgian, Ojibwe, and Albanian. I've left + out Albanian (didn't want to keep track of the dipthong diacritical) + and Ojibwe (no zero digit). So: Nahuatl, Tagalog, Sanskrit, Basque, + Georgian, and Kwakiutl are now supported in addition to English. + +3. The THEORY document has been significantly revised. + + Release 0.9 (by Eric S. Raymond) 5 Mar 1993 + +1. An embarrassing port bug in the INTERCAL skeleton has been fixed + +2. Jamie Zawinski's suggestion for an improved E333 error message has + been accepted. + +3. Added and improved documentation for pit programs. + +4. The install production in the Makefile now puts lose.h in place + as well as cesspool.h. + +5. You can now set the C compiler to be used as a back end by INTERCAL + by setting the environment variable CC. The default is cc. + + Release 0.8 (many hacks on 0.7 by Eric Raymond) 21 Jan 1992 + +1. A previously undocumented `feature' of the Princeton compiler, + revealed by Don Woods, is now emulated. If fewer than 1/5 or more + than 1/3 of a program's statements contain the qualifier `PLEASE', the + program is rejected with an entertaining error message. Programs in pit + have been hacked to pass the politesse test. + +2. The `sample' program now works correctly, thanks to Louis Howell. Also, + he has contributed new programs to calculate pi and to search for prime + numbers. + +3. An intercal mode for GNU Emacs is included. It helps programmers deal with + the new politesse check by randomly expanding the abbrev "do" to DO PLEASE + or PLEASE DO about 1/4 of the time. + +4. Improvements in code generation for NEXT/RESUME. + +5. Fixes to the optimizer; it handles the results of optimized MINGLEs + correctly now. Also, added a rewrite rule that checks for the + equality-test idiom using XOR. + +6. The original error messages from the Princeton compiler have been restored. + +The documentation has been updated to reflect these changes. + + Release 0.7 (by Louis Howell) 21 Dec 1991 + +In addition to bug fixes, new features in this version include arrays, +character I/O, modified (hopefully improved!) semantics for the COME +FROM statement, extensions to bases other than 2, new INTERCAL programs, +and new documentation. + + Release 0.6 (by Steve Swales) 5 Jan 1991 + +1. Restored Princeton documentation (courtesy of Michael Ernst). + +2. Added -@ usage option to ick. + +3. Added [+/-]help, [+/-]traditional, and [+/-]wimpmode options for +generated programs; [+/-]traditional is a no-op at this point. + +4. Various bug fixes, esp. in lexical analysis. + + Release 0.5 (ESR's original pre-release) 5 Jun 1990 + +1. As a convenience to all you junior birdmen out there, `NINER' is accepted as + a synonym for `NINE' in INTERCAL input. + +2. The COME FROM statement is now compiled. + + ------------- + +The resurrection of INTERCAL from its grave took place on 12 May 90 +when ESR released 0.3 on an unsuspecting USENET. + -- 2.43.0