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		unwind on Feb 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kvikkalkul: the secret programming language of the... 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.

m_eiman on Feb 26, 2015 [–]

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

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