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NAME

       Language::INTERCAL::Bytecode - intermediate language

DESCRIPTION

       The CLC-INTERCAL compiler works by producing bytecode from the program source; this bytecode can be
       interpreted to execute the program immediately; alternatively, a backend can produce something else from
       the bytecode, for example C or Perl source code which can then be compiled to your computer's native
       object format.

       The compiler itself is just some more bytecode. Thus, to produce the compiler you need a compiler
       compiler, and to produce that you need a compiler compiler compiler; to produce the latter you would need
       a compiler compiler compiler compiler, and so on to infinity. To simplify the programmer's life (eh?),
       the compiler compiler is able to compile itself, and is therefore identical to the compiler compiler
       compiler (etcetera).

       The programmer can start the process because a pre-compiled compiler compiler, in the form of bytecode,
       is generated somehow while installing CLC-INTERCAL: this compiler compiler then is able to compile all
       other compilers, as well as to rebuild itself if need be.

       See the online manual or the HTML documentation included with the distribution for more information about
       this.

SEE ALSO

       A qualified psychiatrist

AUTHOR

       Claudio Calvelli - compiler (whirlpool) intercal.org.uk (Please include the word INTERLEAVING in the
       subject when emailing that address, or the email may be ignored)