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1.1 Obtaining

C-INTERCAL distributions have been stored in many different places over time; it can sometimes be hard to make sure that you are finding the most recent version. In order to make sure that you have the most recent version, the easiest way is to look at the alt.lang.intercal newsgroup; all releases of the C-INTERCAL compiler ought to be announced there. (If you are interested in what other INTERCAL compilers are available, it may also be worth looking there.) If you don’t have access to a newsreader, your newsreader doesn’t cover that newsgroup, or the distance between releases has been too large for your news server to keep the message, it’s likely that you can find the announcement in an archive on the World Wide Web; at the time of writing (2007), the archives of the newsgroup are stored by Google Groups, and a search for ‘alt.lang.intercal’ there should tell you where to find a copy.

If you’re looking for the latest version, note that the number after the dot represents the major version number; you want to maximise this in favour of the number before the dot, which is the bugfix level within a major version. (Major versions are released as version 0.whatever; if a new version comes out that fixes bugs but adds no new features, nowadays its number will be of the form 1.whatever, with the same major number. This has not always been the case, though.)