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# Dishonorable mention
Anonymous
Anonymous
## To build:
make all
## Try:
## To run:
./anonymous
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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.