Inject a little fun to FAQ about the first IOCCC
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@@ -1844,9 +1844,10 @@ for more up to date information on downloading, compiling, and related FAQ infor
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<p>One day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt
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Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting group, and we
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were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.</p>
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<p><strong>It was a dark and stormy night…</strong></p>
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<p>OK, let’s go back to 1984, not 1830: one day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel
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and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting
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group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.</p>
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<p>Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code <code>#define</code>d
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to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the <code>finger(1)</code>
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program from early BSD (a bug ridden <code>finger</code> implementation to be sure).</p>
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@@ -1677,9 +1677,11 @@ for more up to date information on downloading, compiling, and related FAQ infor
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</div>
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</div>
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One day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt
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Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting group, and we
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were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.
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**It was a dark and stormy night...**
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OK, let's go back to 1984, not 1830: one day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel
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and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting
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group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.
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Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code `#define`d
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to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the `finger(1)`
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