Update FAQ about incongruent code & author remarks
As I was looking at 2004/burley/README.md it occurred to me that numerous entries have been modified in ways that are incongruent with what the author(s) originally wrote about the entry. In some cases this has been noted in the README.md file (like has been added to 2004/burley/README.md itself) but not in all. That should probably be checked for and I will do that in time most likely but in the meantime it felt even better to update the FAQ about this which this commit does as well.
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@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ By tradition, we do not say.
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## Q: How many judging rounds do you have?
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Are you trying to trick us? We will not say that either.
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## Q: How come some entries have code that is incongruent with what the author(s) wrote about the entry?
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It is very likely in this case that the code was fixed to work for modern
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systems as part of the reworking of the website. If you have this problem in
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some entries you should look at the original code as in `winner.orig.c` or
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`prog.orig.c`. Sometimes the original is in an alt version like `winner.alt.c`
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or `prog.alt.c`.
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## Q: I cannot get entry XYZZY from year 19xx to compile!
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Some winners, particularly winners from long ago, no longer compile on more
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@@ -64,9 +72,12 @@ Mill](/winners.html#Christopher_Mills)'s entry
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PDP-11/40 emulator.
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Others are not so easy though we're working on this and over time have added
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alternative code. Most entries do now work and the others we are working on. In
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some cases we replaced the original code with code that works for modern systems
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but one can view the original code in the `.orig.c` files (sometimes the
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alternative code and/or fixed them. Most entries do now work and the others we
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are working on (slowly as other things are also being done and this is on free
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time).
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In some cases we replaced the original code with code that works for modern
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systems but one can view the original code in the `.orig.c` files (sometimes the
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original code is also in the directory as a `winner.alt.c` or `prog.alt.c`).
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## Q: After running a program my terminal is all messed up! How do I restore my terminal?
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