Fixes in 1984 winning entries' README.md files

Formatting and possibly typos.

1984/anonymous/README.md

@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
 # Dishonorable mention
 
-    Anonymous
+Anonymous  
 
 
 ## To build:
 
-	make all
+```sh
+make all
+```
 
 ## To run:
 
-	./anonymous
+```sh
-
+./anonymous
+```
 
 [Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) fixed this to work
 under macOS. The fix was to prototype `read()` prior to being defined and not
 using `int, int, int` as the entry does. Instead the second arg is a `void *`.
-In the `read()` function which actually calls `write(2)` the `i` (which is the
+In the `read()` function (which actually calls `write(2)`) the `i` (which is the
-`void *` has to be cast to an `int`. This solves the problem. Thank you Cody for
+`void *`) has to be cast to an `int`. This solves the problem. Thank you Cody for
 your assistance!
 
 
@@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ 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.'
+for my connection to the C language.
 
 ### On the famous tattoo (see above):
 
@@ -63,10 +66,10 @@ Landon Curt Noll, the one who told the author about the tattoo, wrote back:
 ### 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
+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
+likes the "two line look" and the way `hell o` was split. :-) And they like the
-fact that it ends in a smily face: ;}
+fact that it ends in a smily face: `;}`
 
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:

1984/decot/README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # Second place award 
 
-Dave Decot
+Dave Decot  
 
 ## To build:
 
-        make all
+```sh
+make all
+```
 
 Originally [Yusuke Endoh](/winners.html#Yusuke_Endoh) supplied a patch so that
 this entry would compile with gcc - but not clang - or at least some versions.
@@ -23,11 +25,11 @@ does not. Clang also requires that the second and third arguments to main be a
 
 ### Alternative code:
 
-The alternative code, [decot.alt.c](decot.alt.c), is the fix that Cody made to
+The alternative code, [decot.alt.c](decot.alt.c), is the original code that
-the version that does require `-traditional-cpp` and still runs afoul with
+requires `-traditional-cpp` and will also run afoul with clang's requirement for
-clang's requirement for the second and third arguments to main() being a `char
+the second and third arguments to main() being a `char **` (the fixed version's
-**` (the fixed version's main() only has one arg, an int). It is a minor fix to
+main() only has one arg, an int). It is a minor fix to Yusuke's fix. Thank you
-Yusuke's fix. Thank you Yusuke and Cody!
+Yusuke and Cody!
 
 To try this version:
 
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ This program prints out a string of garbage.
 
 The judges also offer this one comment: understand remarks!
 
-### Historical comments:
+### Historical remarks:
 
 Some new (in 1984) compilers disliked line 15 of the original source, so we changed it
 from:
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ To see what we mean look at the source file in the
 
 ## Author's remarks:
 
-No comments were provided by the author.
+No remarks were provided by the author.
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
 

1984/laman/README.md

@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
 # Third place
 
-Mike Laman
+Mike Laman  
 
 ## To build:
 
-        make all
+```sh
+make all
+```
 
 ## To run:
 
-	./laman <positive number>
+```sh
+./laman <positive number>
+```
 
 
 ### INABIAF - it's not a bug it's a feature :-)
@@ -22,9 +26,11 @@ arg.
 The program accepts ONE POSITIVE argument.  Seeing is believing, so try things
 like:
 
-	./laman 4
+```sh
-	./laman 9
+./laman 4
-	./laman 16
+./laman 9
+./laman 16
+```
 
 This code should run you in circles.
 
@@ -33,19 +39,23 @@ This code should run you in circles.
 Some new compilers dislike lines 6 and 10 of the source, so we changed
 them from:
 
-	;++f)a[		b<<5|c]		=d++,b+		=e;for(		f=0;f<O
+```c
-	<<5|c]^		=a[b<<5		|c]^=a[		(k-(b+1		))<<5|c]
+;++f)a[		b<<5|c]		=d++,b+		=e;for(		f=0;f<O
+<<5|c]^		=a[b<<5		|c]^=a[		(k-(b+1		))<<5|c]
+```
 
 to:
 
-	;++f)a[		b<<5|c]		=d++,b+=	e;for(		f=0;f<O
+```c
-	<<5|c]^=	a[b<<5		|c]^=a[		(k-(b+1		))<<5|c]
+;++f)a[		b<<5|c]		=d++,b+=	e;for(		f=0;f<O
+<<5|c]^=	a[b<<5		|c]^=a[		(k-(b+1		))<<5|c]
+```
 
 I hope you have a C beautifier!
 
 ## Author's remarks:
 
-No comments were provided by the author.
+No remarks were provided by the author.
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
 

1984/mullender/README.md

@@ -1,58 +1,68 @@
 # The Grand Prize 
 
-Sjoerd Mullender
+Sjoerd Mullender  
 
-Robbert van Renesse
+Robbert van Renesse  
 
 ## To build:
 
-	make all
+```sh
+make all
+```
 
 ## To run:
 
-	./mullender
+```sh
+./mullender
+```
 
 > NOTE: If your machine is not a Vax-11 or pdp-11, this program will
 > not execute correctly.  In later years, machine dependent
 > code was discouraged.
 
-## Alternative code:
+### Alternative code:
 
 [Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) added the alternative
 code which lets you run this on other systems. He notes though that this was
 only a slight fix and enhancement to the change in the [faq](/faq.md). Thank you
 Cody for your assistance!
 
-### To build:
+#### To build:
 
 
-	make alt
+```sh
+make alt
+```
 
-### To run:
+#### To run:
 
-	./mullender.alt [microseconds]
+```sh
+./mullender.alt [microseconds]
+```
 
-The default microseconds is 10000. This ability is so you can experiment with
+The default microseconds is 10000. This feature is so you can experiment with
 different speeds in between writes. It can be useful if your CPU is too slow or
 too fast.
 
-BTW: is there such a thing as too fast a CPU ? :-) actually yes for certain code
+BTW: is there such a thing as too fast a CPU ? :-) Actually yes for certain code
-which is probably not as uncommon as you think :-) ).
+which is probably not as uncommon as you think :-).
 
 Note that it is an int and it uses `atoi()` which does NOT check for
 overflow! In fact it's argc itself.
 
 
-## Try:
+#### Try:
 
 
-    ./mullender.alt
+```sh
+./mullender.alt
 
-    ./mullender.alt 5000
+./mullender.alt 5000
 
-    ./mullender.alt 500
+./mullender.alt 500
 
-    ./mullender.alt 20000
+./mullender.alt 20000
+```
 
 What happens if you hit enter after it writes a line of output?
 
@@ -84,7 +94,7 @@ BTW: this remains my (Landon Curt Noll's) all time favorite entries!
 
 ## Author's remarks:
 
-These comments, found at
+These remarks, found at
 [https://lainsystems.com/posts/exploring-mullender-dot-c/](https://lainsystems.com/posts/exploring-mullender-dot-c/),
 were provided by Sjoerd Mullender years later. We thank the author of the
 article for the quote!
@@ -125,9 +135,9 @@ The rest is history.
 Since this was the first contest, we hadn't seen any old entries, nor had any of
 the other contestants. Of course we knew about #define and tricks you could do
 with that, but we didn't need that for this program. In fact, we made it as
-“standard” as possible. At the time there was this program called “cb” for C
+“standard” as possible. At the time there was this program called `cb` for C
 beautifier which would re-indent your program to make the layout look better. Our
-program is idempotent under cb.
+program is idempotent under `cb`.
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License: