Mnky

Hi, all. I'm not really new to programming, but I read about INTERCAL the other day and thought it would be a lot of fun to write and compile a few programs in it. I downloaded this version of the language, read the manual to learn syntax/etc, but I can't seem to get anything to happen as far as turning code into executables. It claims throughout the source that using "ick file.i" will compile file.i, but I'm having no such luck ("'ick' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file."), and I would think that would depend on my Path having some info in it as well, though nowhere am I told how to modify my path to set this up. There are also numerous references to Yacc, Flex, and Bison, but I can't tell how it wants them set up nor what they're needed for. Included in the archive are some .bat scripts (which fail due to my not having Yacc, Flex, and Bison set up properly) and some .sh scripts, both of which seem like they would set up the compiler (or maybe compile the compiler, first) if they could be run without errors.

Also, the compiler here (I believe) just generates C from the INTERCAL. After that I should be fine, as I somehow got a C compiler to run on my machine. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Mad_guy

When I went diving with INTERCAL, I liked jintercal (I too had some setup trouble with the standard distro):

http://spiff.de/jintercal.html

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