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The INTERCAL manual gives unusual names to all non-alphanumeric ASCII characters: single and double quotes are " sparks " and " rabbit ears " respectively.

( The exception is the ampersand: as the Jargon File states, " what could be sillier?

") The assignment operator, represented as an equals sign ( INTERCAL's " half mesh ") in many other programming languages, is in INTERCAL a left-arrow, < code ><-</ code >, referred to as " gets " and made up of an " angle " and a " worm ".