kvik - A Kvikkalkul Compiler
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Written by Asher Hoskins. (ukrhosk@prl.philips.co.uk)

A few weeks ago somebody posted a description of a Swedish military programming
language called Kvikkalkul to alt.folklore.computers. The posting was
probably a troll but I was feeling silly so I decided to write a compiler
for it. The compiler translates the code into C.

The start of the original Kvikkalkul news posting contained dire warnings
about what would happen to anyone who was caught in possession of the
information in Sweden - you've been warned! :-)

This compiler has so far been tested on a Sun386i running SunOS 4.0.2 and
a SPARCstation IPX running SunOS 4.1.3_U1, I've no idea whether it'll run
on anything else, let me know if there are any hacks necessary to compile
it for other systems.


The directories:

kviksrc		Assorted Kvikkalkul source code.
src		The compiler source, look in its README file for information
		on making and running the compiler.
text		Assorted text files. Mostly notes I made during development,
		but includes a list of all standard library routines and the
		two news postings that brought knowledge of kvikkalkul to the
		world (the first of which, 'posting1', is a useful Kvikkalkul
		manual).

I haven't found any bugs in this version, but somebody probably will...
If you do could you please mail me?

Asher.

