Editing INTERCAL (section)

== Dialects ==
The original Woods–Lyon INTERCAL was very limited in its [[input/output]] capabilities: the only acceptable input were numbers with the digits spelled out, and the only output was an extended version of [[Roman numerals]].

The C-INTERCAL reimplementation, being available on the Internet, has made the language more popular with devotees of esoteric programming languages.<ref name="nickm"/> The C-INTERCAL dialect has a few differences from original INTERCAL and introduced a few new features, such as a [[COMEFROM|COME FROM]] statement and a means of doing text I/O based on the Turing Text Model.<ref name="manualick">{{cite web |url=http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~sbg/intercal/ick.html |title=C-INTERCAL supplemental reference manual |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080223094001/http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~sbg/intercal/ick.html |archive-date=2008-02-23}}</ref>

The authors of C-INTERCAL also created the TriINTERCAL variant, based on the [[Ternary numeral system]] and generalizing INTERCAL's set of operators.<ref name="manualick"/>

A more recent variant is Threaded Intercal, which extends the functionality of COME FROM to support [[Thread (computer science)|multithreading]].<ref name="manualthick">{{cite web|url=http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/intercal/threaded.html |title=Threaded Intercal |publisher=Cse.unsw.edu.au |date=2004-06-09 |access-date=2012-03-10}}</ref>

CLC-INTERCAL has a library called INTERNET for networking functionality including being an INTERCAL server, and also includes features such as Quantum Intercal, which enables multi-value calculations in a way purportedly ready for the first [[Quantum computing | quantum computers]].
  
In early 2017 a [[.NET]] Implementation targeting the [[.NET Framework]] appeared on [[GitHub]]. This implementation supports the creation of standalone binary libraries and interop with other programming languages. <ref name="componentintercal">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/jawhitti/INTERCAL|title=Official home of Simple Component Intercal for .NET |website=[[GitHub]] |date=30 September 2021 }}</ref>