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Re:Kvikkalkul: the secret programming language of the Swedis... by unwind on Thursday February 26, 2015 @03:37AM (#9111614)
There is "kvick", sure. But "kalkul" certainly isn't a word. The closest match would be "kalkyl". So the language seems to be named by messing up the spelling of two words, which I guess isn't impossible but still somewhat ... weird.
Re:Kvikkalkul: the secret programming language of the Swedis... by m_eiman on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:14AM (#9111709)
kvikkalkul sounds Norwegian rather than Swedish. It'd mean "fast calculation", more or less.

There's also Plankalkül by Zuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl