Merge pull request #1809 from xexyl/thanks-updates

thanks-for-help.md

@@ -4527,7 +4527,7 @@ compilers. See the README.md for more details.
 ## <a name="makefile_improvements"></a>Makefile improvements
 
 [Cody](#cody) made a variety of changes in all Makefiles, sometimes to get an entry to
-work, all noted below, but he also **improved them all** in at least one or two
+work, all noted above, but he also **improved them all** in at least one or two
 ways.
 
 For instance he changed the `LIBS` variable to `LDFLAGS` as that is the standard
@@ -4619,28 +4619,29 @@ HARD bug fixes** like [1988/phillipps](/thanks-for-help.md#1988_phillipps),
 [2005/giljade](/thanks-for-help.md#2005_giljade), making entries like
 [1985/sicherman](/thanks-for-help.md#1985_sicherman) and
 [1986/wall](/thanks-for-help.md#1986_wall) not need `-traditional-cpp` (all
-**EXTREMELY HARD**), fixing entries to work with clang (some **EXTREMELY
+**EXTREMELY HARD**), fixing entries to work with clang (some **EXTREMELY HARD**
-HARD** like [1991/dds](/thanks-for-help.md#1991_dds)) or as much as possible
+like [1991/dds](/thanks-for-help.md#1991_dds)) or as much as possible
-([1989/westley](/thanks-for-help.md#1989_westley), a true masterpiece that
+([1989/westley](/thanks-for-help.md#1989_westley), a true masterpiece that is
-is **INCREDIBLY HARD, *MUCH MORE SO* than any other fix!**), porting
+**INCREDIBLY HARD, *MUCH MORE SO* than any other fix!**), porting entries to
-entries to macOS (some **EXTREMELY HARD** like
+macOS (some **EXTREMELY HARD** like
 [1998/schweikh1](/thanks-for-help.md#1998_schweikh1), fixing code like
 [2001/herrmann2](/thanks-for-help.md#2001_herrmann2) to work in both
 32-bit/64-bit which *can be* **EXTREMELY HARD**, providing alternate code where
-useful/necessary, improving **ALL _Makefiles_** and writing
+useful/necessary, improving **ALL _Makefiles_**, writing scripts to
-[sgit](https://github.com/xexyl/sgit) that we installed locally to easily run
+greatly simplify running many of the entries and writing
+[sgit](https://github.com/xexyl/sgit) to easily run
 `sed` on files in the repo to help build the website.
 
-Cody Boone Ferguson also used one of his own tools to detect many
+Cody Boone Ferguson also used one of his own tools to detect many dead links.
-dead links.  While the tool was not perfect it went a long way
+While the tool was not perfect it went a long way to uncover a good number of
-to uncover a good number of bad, broken or otherwise invalid links.
+bad, broken or otherwise invalid links.  It was a very laborious task to copy
-It was a very laborious task to copy and paste problematic links
+and paste problematic links into the [Internet Wayback
-into the Internet Wayback Machine in an effort to try and find
+Machine](https://web.archive.org) in an effort to try and find otherwise lost
-otherwise lost content.  A good number of links that now refer to
+content.  A good number of links that now refer to something in the [Internet
-something in the [Internet Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org)
+Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org) replace bad, broken, or otherwise
-replace bad, broken, or otherwise invalid links are thanks to
+invalid links are thanks to Cody's efforts! Another tool he wrote detected
-Cody's efforts! Another tool he wrote detected inconsistent award titles
+inconsistent award titles in the README files and CSV file (that he generated
-in the README files and CSV file (that he generated from the SQL file).
+from the SQL file).
 
 **THANK YOU VERY MUCH** for your extensive efforts in helping improve the IOCCC
 presentation of past IOCCC winners and fixing almost all past entries for modern