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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by Buttons840 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:25PM (#25054526)
"If PLEASE was not encountered often enough, the program would be rejected; that is, ignored without explanation by the compiler. Too often and it would still be rejected, this time for sniveling. Combined with other words that are rarely used in programming languages but appear as statements in INTERCAL, the code reads like someone pleading."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

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