diff --git a/1984/anonymous/1984-anonymous-tattoo.jpg b/1984/anonymous/1984-anonymous-tattoo.jpg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e05fd5d9e Binary files /dev/null and b/1984/anonymous/1984-anonymous-tattoo.jpg differ diff --git a/1984/anonymous/README.md b/1984/anonymous/README.md index 5ddbbdfb7..28bba8924 100644 --- a/1984/anonymous/README.md +++ b/1984/anonymous/README.md @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ # Dishonorable mention -Anonymous + Anonymous + ## To build: make all -## Try: - +## To run: ./anonymous @@ -53,14 +53,46 @@ program has a well known connection with the C programming language. This program is a unique variation on the age old "Hello, world" program. What reads like a read may be written like a write! +In 2005 someone by the name of Thomas Scovell got a tattoo of this entry. See +his [web +page](https://web.archive.org/web/20070120220721/https://thomasscovell.com/tattoo.php) +for more information on the tattoo. This is what it looks like: + + +![1984-anonymous-tattoo.jpg](1984-anonymous-tattoo.jpg) + + + ## Author's comments: +### On remaining anonymous: + Some years after this entry was published we asked the author if they still wished to remain anonymous and they said: > Yes, I want to keep my anonymity. But you can tell them that I am well known for my connection to the C language.' +### On the famous tattoo (see above): + +The author, when told about this tattoo, said: + +> I feel honored that my entry will be the first IOCCC winner to become a +tattoo. It is the first entry to become a tattoo isn't it? + +Landon Curt Noll, the one who told the author about the tattoo, wrote back: + +> Yes, to our knowledge it is. + +### Regrets: + +Landon Curt Noll wrote that the author, if they had to do it over again, regrets not +making the program a one-liner and not moving the "int i" into an arg of main +(so that the line would have started with main). On the other hand the author +likes the "two line look" and the way hell o was split. :-) And they like the +fact that it ends in a smily face: ;} + + ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License: This file is Copyright (c) 2023 by Landon Curt Noll. All Rights Reserved.