Fix 1993/dgibson/README.md
This includes removing a statement that this could not compile under macOS. I'm not sure what happened but I suspect it was the wrong data file perhaps one of the files left by the script. Either way it does work with macOS. Fixed formatting as well.
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### To run
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sh ./dgibson.sh [datafile]
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./dgibson.sh [datafile]
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where:
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datafile initial pattern (default: dgibson.data1)
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where:
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## Judges' comments
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datafile initial pattern (default: dgibson.data1)
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## Try:
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./dgibson.sh dgibson.data3
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## Judges' comments:
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We have provided the shell script 'dgibson.sh' to make it easier
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to run this entry. Run this shell script several times to
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see what happens.
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We have provided the shell script `dgibson.sh` to make it easier
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to run this entry. Run this shell script several times to
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see what happens.
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There are a number of data files available:
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There are a number of data files available:
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dgibson.data1
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dgibson.data2
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dgibson.data4
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dgibson.data5
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For dgibson.data5 you will need a large screen, lots of virtual
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memory and lots of time!
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For `dgibson.data5` you will need a large screen, lots of virtual
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memory and lots of time!
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Good luck trying to use a debugger on this entry! Life is not
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always pretty.
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NOTE: we could not compile this entry under modern macOS but it will work
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fine under linux. It likely fails to compile under macOS because its gcc is
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actually just clang which is more strict about the type of the second argument
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of main(). If you have gcc under macOS it might work just as well. We did not
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test other systems.
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Good luck trying to use a debugger on this entry! Life is not
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always pretty.
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## Author's comments
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This program plays the Game of Life.
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This program plays the Game of Life.
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Life is a cellular automaton invented by J. H. Conway, in which each of
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a rectangular grid of cells can be alive or dead, and cells with more
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than 3 or less than 2 (out of 8) live neighbours die, and empty cells
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with exactly 3 neighbours give birth.
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Life is a cellular automaton invented by J. H. Conway, in which each of
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a rectangular grid of cells can be alive or dead, and cells with more
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than 3 or less than 2 (out of 8) live neighbours die, and empty cells
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with exactly 3 neighbours give birth.
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Some notes: the "STAT n" information does not have to be present in the
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initial configuration; the initial configuration should not have live
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cells around the edges; the grid should be a perfect rectangle.
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Some notes: the "STAT n" information does not have to be present in the
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initial configuration; the initial configuration should not have live
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cells around the edges; the grid should be a perfect rectangle.
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Further features: the current generation number is preserved, and the
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grid automatically resizes itself as the object gets too big or too
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small.
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Further features: the current generation number is preserved, and the
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grid automatically resizes itself as the object gets too big or too
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small.
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When writing this program, my goal was to make each cell in the life
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grid expand to the code which calculates the fate of that cell. In
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addition, the resulting program is a single expression, which makes it
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necessary to recurse on main in two "directions" simultaneously.
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When writing this program, my goal was to make each cell in the life
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grid expand to the code which calculates the fate of that cell. In
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addition, the resulting program is a single expression, which makes it
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necessary to recurse on main in two "directions" simultaneously.
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## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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