Fixes in 1984 winning entries' README.md files
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# Dishonorable mention
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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## To build:
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make all
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```sh
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make all
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```
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## To run:
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./anonymous
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```sh
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./anonymous
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```
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[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) fixed this to work
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under macOS. The fix was to prototype `read()` prior to being defined and not
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using `int, int, int` as the entry does. Instead the second arg is a `void *`.
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In the `read()` function which actually calls `write(2)` the `i` (which is the
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`void *` has to be cast to an `int`. This solves the problem. Thank you Cody for
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In the `read()` function (which actually calls `write(2)`) the `i` (which is the
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`void *`) has to be cast to an `int`. This solves the problem. Thank you Cody for
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your assistance!
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@@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ Some years after this entry was published we asked the author if they still
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wished to remain anonymous and they said:
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> Yes, I want to keep my anonymity. But you can tell them that I am well known
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for my connection to the C language.'
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for my connection to the C language.
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### On the famous tattoo (see above):
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@@ -63,10 +66,10 @@ Landon Curt Noll, the one who told the author about the tattoo, wrote back:
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### Regrets:
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Landon Curt Noll wrote that the author, if they had to do it over again, regrets not
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making the program a one-liner and not moving the "int i" into an arg of main
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making the program a one-liner and not moving the `int i` into an arg of main
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(so that the line would have started with main). On the other hand the author
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likes the "two line look" and the way hell o was split. :-) And they like the
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fact that it ends in a smily face: ;}
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likes the "two line look" and the way `hell o` was split. :-) And they like the
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fact that it ends in a smily face: `;}`
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## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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# Second place award
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Dave Decot
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Dave Decot
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## To build:
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make all
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```sh
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make all
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```
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Originally [Yusuke Endoh](/winners.html#Yusuke_Endoh) supplied a patch so that
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this entry would compile with gcc - but not clang - or at least some versions.
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@@ -23,11 +25,11 @@ does not. Clang also requires that the second and third arguments to main be a
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### Alternative code:
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The alternative code, [decot.alt.c](decot.alt.c), is the fix that Cody made to
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the version that does require `-traditional-cpp` and still runs afoul with
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clang's requirement for the second and third arguments to main() being a `char
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**` (the fixed version's main() only has one arg, an int). It is a minor fix to
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Yusuke's fix. Thank you Yusuke and Cody!
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The alternative code, [decot.alt.c](decot.alt.c), is the original code that
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requires `-traditional-cpp` and will also run afoul with clang's requirement for
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the second and third arguments to main() being a `char **` (the fixed version's
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main() only has one arg, an int). It is a minor fix to Yusuke's fix. Thank you
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Yusuke and Cody!
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To try this version:
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@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ This program prints out a string of garbage.
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The judges also offer this one comment: understand remarks!
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### Historical comments:
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### Historical remarks:
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Some new (in 1984) compilers disliked line 15 of the original source, so we changed it
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from:
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@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ To see what we mean look at the source file in the
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## Author's remarks:
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No comments were provided by the author.
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No remarks were provided by the author.
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## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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# Third place
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Mike Laman
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Mike Laman
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## To build:
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make all
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```sh
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make all
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```
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## To run:
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./laman <positive number>
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```sh
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./laman <positive number>
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```
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### INABIAF - it's not a bug it's a feature :-)
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@@ -22,9 +26,11 @@ arg.
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The program accepts ONE POSITIVE argument. Seeing is believing, so try things
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like:
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./laman 4
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./laman 9
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./laman 16
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```sh
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./laman 4
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./laman 9
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./laman 16
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```
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This code should run you in circles.
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@@ -33,19 +39,23 @@ This code should run you in circles.
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Some new compilers dislike lines 6 and 10 of the source, so we changed
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them from:
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;++f)a[ b<<5|c] =d++,b+ =e;for( f=0;f<O
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<<5|c]^ =a[b<<5 |c]^=a[ (k-(b+1 ))<<5|c]
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```c
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;++f)a[ b<<5|c] =d++,b+ =e;for( f=0;f<O
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<<5|c]^ =a[b<<5 |c]^=a[ (k-(b+1 ))<<5|c]
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```
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to:
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;++f)a[ b<<5|c] =d++,b+= e;for( f=0;f<O
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<<5|c]^= a[b<<5 |c]^=a[ (k-(b+1 ))<<5|c]
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```c
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;++f)a[ b<<5|c] =d++,b+= e;for( f=0;f<O
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<<5|c]^= a[b<<5 |c]^=a[ (k-(b+1 ))<<5|c]
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```
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I hope you have a C beautifier!
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## Author's remarks:
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No comments were provided by the author.
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No remarks were provided by the author.
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## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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# The Grand Prize
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Sjoerd Mullender
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Sjoerd Mullender
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Robbert van Renesse
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Robbert van Renesse
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## To build:
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make all
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```sh
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make all
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```
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## To run:
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./mullender
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```sh
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./mullender
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```
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> NOTE: If your machine is not a Vax-11 or pdp-11, this program will
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> not execute correctly. In later years, machine dependent
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> code was discouraged.
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## Alternative code:
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### Alternative code:
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[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) added the alternative
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code which lets you run this on other systems. He notes though that this was
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only a slight fix and enhancement to the change in the [faq](/faq.md). Thank you
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Cody for your assistance!
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### To build:
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#### To build:
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make alt
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```sh
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make alt
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```
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### To run:
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#### To run:
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./mullender.alt [microseconds]
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```sh
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./mullender.alt [microseconds]
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```
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The default microseconds is 10000. This ability is so you can experiment with
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The default microseconds is 10000. This feature is so you can experiment with
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different speeds in between writes. It can be useful if your CPU is too slow or
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too fast.
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BTW: is there such a thing as too fast a CPU ? :-) actually yes for certain code
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which is probably not as uncommon as you think :-) ).
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BTW: is there such a thing as too fast a CPU ? :-) Actually yes for certain code
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which is probably not as uncommon as you think :-).
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Note that it is an int and it uses `atoi()` which does NOT check for
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overflow! In fact it's argc itself.
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## Try:
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#### Try:
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./mullender.alt
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```sh
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./mullender.alt
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./mullender.alt 5000
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./mullender.alt 5000
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./mullender.alt 500
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./mullender.alt 500
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./mullender.alt 20000
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./mullender.alt 20000
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```
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What happens if you hit enter after it writes a line of output?
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@@ -84,7 +94,7 @@ BTW: this remains my (Landon Curt Noll's) all time favorite entries!
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## Author's remarks:
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These comments, found at
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These remarks, found at
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[https://lainsystems.com/posts/exploring-mullender-dot-c/](https://lainsystems.com/posts/exploring-mullender-dot-c/),
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were provided by Sjoerd Mullender years later. We thank the author of the
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article for the quote!
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@@ -125,9 +135,9 @@ The rest is history.
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Since this was the first contest, we hadn't seen any old entries, nor had any of
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the other contestants. Of course we knew about #define and tricks you could do
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with that, but we didn't need that for this program. In fact, we made it as
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“standard” as possible. At the time there was this program called “cb” for C
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“standard” as possible. At the time there was this program called `cb` for C
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beautifier which would re-indent your program to make the layout look better. Our
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program is idempotent under cb.
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program is idempotent under `cb`.
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## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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