Kvikkalkul Home Page

This Web site is devoted to Kvikkalkul, the secret programming language of the Swedish Navy. In October 1994, the language was described in a Usenet message by an anonymous programmer who used Kvikkalkul in 1957 to write submarine weapons guidance programs and an accounting program.

Documentation

The original Usenet posting about Kvikkalkul
A second Usenet posting offering more details
A third Usenet posting with example source code
The Kvikkalkul 95 announcement

Programs

A Kvikkalkul-to-C translator by Asher Hoskins
A PowerMac version distributed by Brian Conners

Help

Some Kvikkalkul resources are no longer available. Your help is needed to keep this language from being lost to future generations of computer programmers.

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