From 3da5bb90225fc1ead40c9e402e6667248660f25d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 06:41:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Inject a little fun to FAQ about the first IOCCC --- faq.html | 7 ++++--- faq.md | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/faq.html b/faq.html index 18a9e702e..6a4ab1136 100644 --- a/faq.html +++ b/faq.html @@ -1844,9 +1844,10 @@ for more up to date information on downloading, compiling, and related FAQ infor -

One day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt -Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting group, and we -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 +and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting +group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.

Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code #defined to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the finger(1) program from early BSD (a bug ridden finger implementation to be sure).

diff --git a/faq.md b/faq.md index a06403675..fa116b642 100644 --- a/faq.md +++ b/faq.md @@ -1677,9 +1677,11 @@ for more up to date information on downloading, compiling, and related FAQ infor -One day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt -Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting group, and we -were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code. +**It was a dark and stormy night...** + +OK, let's go back to 1984, not 1830: one day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel +and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting +group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code. Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code `#define`d to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the `finger(1)`