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2018/ferguson/rpm.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ requiring a fix.
 
 *   I am keeping the weasel.spec file in the entry as it was part of my
 submission but I do not explain here how to set up the build environment or how
-to build a RPM: if you know how to use **`rpmbuild`** then you should be able to
+to build a RPM: if you know how to use **rpmbuild** then you should be able to
 work it out. Again that's a crazy idea but again it was there and it was part of
 the judges' comments (which I liked a lot) which is yet another reason I kept
 it.

2020/ferguson1/README.md

@@ -28,59 +28,59 @@ and non-zero).
 
 ### Variables:
 
-* **`WAIT`**\
+* **WAIT**\
 	    	positive or negative integer that changes how long to wait for
 		a key press prior to moving again. < 0 blocks which allows
 		for complete control over movement at your own pace. Default
 		231; you can move faster by holding down or rapidly pressing an
 		arrow key.
 
-* **`WALLS`**\
+* **WALLS**\
 	        whether the walls are passable or impassable. Default passable,
 		1; 0 makes walls impassable where you die if you hit a wall.
 
-* **`EVADE`**\
+* **EVADE**\
 	        how many movements the Snake moves before the bug (well
 		insect; see notes below about why bugs) will move to
 		another location in the field. Default 300; 0 disables.
 
-* **`SIZE`**\
+* **SIZE**\
 	        initial size of the Snake. Note that it grows by one per
 		move so at the default 5 it will not initially be 5
 		characters long! < 0 is likely an immediate win.
 
-* **`MAXSIZE`**\
+* **MAXSIZE**\
 	        the maximum size the Snake can become before the game is
 		won. < 0 is the maximum size based on terminal dimensions;
 		any other size will be capped based on the terminal
-		dimensions to prevent problems. Note that when **`SIZE+GROW >=
+		dimensions to prevent problems. Note that when **SIZE+GROW >=
-		MAXSIZE`** you win _before_ you grow to the full size!
+		MAXSIZE** you win _before_ you grow to the full size!
 
-* **`GROW`**\
+* **GROW**\
 	        size to grow every time you eat a bug. Default 5; negative
 		values are allowed. 'Negativity' creates for fun gameplay modes with
 		enough creativity. See [gameplay.html](gameplay.html)
 		GitHub) as well as [play.sh](play.sh) for some examples.
 
-* **`SHED`**\
+* **SHED**\
-	        every **`SHED`** movements you will grow (> 0), shrink (< 0) or
+	        every **SHED** movements you will grow (> 0), shrink (< 0) or
-		stay the same length (0) by the **`SHEDS`** (below) value. Again
+		stay the same length (0) by the **SHEDS** (below) value. Again
 		with creativity you can create some fun gameplay modes.  NOTE:
 		the concept of shedding in this game is a misnomer; see notes
 		below.
 
-* **`SHEDS`**\
+* **SHEDS**\
-	        every **`SHED`** movements will impact what this value means: grow
+	        every **SHED** movements will impact what this value means: grow
 		(> 0), shrink (< 0) or not at all (0). Exception: if the snake
 		eats a bug the counter isn't incremented. Again with creativity
 		you can create some fun gameplay modes here. For instance you
-		can grow upon eating a bug but shrink every **`SHED`** movements
+		can grow upon eating a bug but shrink every **SHED** movements
-		and then it's a battle of whether you win by **`SIZE < 0`** or
+		and then it's a battle of whether you win by **SIZE < 0** or
-		**`SIZE >= MAXSIZE`**. See [play.sh](play.sh) for examples.
+		**SIZE >= MAXSIZE**. See [play.sh](play.sh) for examples.
 		NOTE: the concept of shedding in this game is a misnomer; see
 		notes below.
 
-* **`CANNIBAL`**\
+* **CANNIBAL**\
 	        whether you can go through the Snake or not. Default is 0
 		(cannot - die if you try).
 
@@ -158,17 +158,17 @@ file modify the behaviour of Snake.
 
 Here are some other features of the game:
 
-*   A drawing/practising mode (**`WAIT`** < 0 makes `timeout()` block).
+*   A drawing/practising mode (**WAIT** < 0 makes `timeout()` block).
 
 *   Computer plays the game (**WAIT=0**).\
 	- **EPILEPSY/STIMULATION OVERLOAD WARNING** included in the relevant
-	section (this goes for a low **`EVADE`** value too).
+	section (this goes for a low **EVADE** value too).
 
 *   Grow-Shrink mode (Positive and Negative Winning) mode (see
     [gameplay.html](gameplay.html) for more details).
 
 *   The dimensions of the game (this is actually a terminal thing but I document
-    how to do this and its potential pitfalls) (**`LINES`** , **`COLUMNS`**).
+    how to do this and its potential pitfalls) (**LINES** , **COLUMNS**).
 
 There are no complicated command line invocations; it's just a matter of passing
 into the game descriptively named variables and I include a script that sets up
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ a pun and every pun deserves to be shed).
 They grow through a process called moulting - shedding their skin (other
 creatures also moult). This takes place over some days and unlike humans snakes
 never stop growing (though growth slows down as they mature). I chose the
-variables **`SHED`** and **`SHEDS`** for simplicity and because the words are
+variables **SHED** and **SHEDS** for simplicity and because the words are
 shorter. I don't like the words because it's rather a misnomer but what I had
 chosen before was longer - STRETCH and STRETCHES.
 

2020/ferguson1/cannibalism.log.md

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ to distinguish what is what.
 
 # Examples
 
-In the below game dumps I have replaced the bug with **`B`**, the head with
+In the below game dumps I have replaced the bug with **B**, the head with
-**`H`** and where it is known, the tail with **`T`**, in order to help
+**H** and where it is known, the tail with **T**, in order to help
-distinguish where they are. Since the head is replaced with **`H`** I have noted
+distinguish where they are. Since the head is replaced with **H** I have noted
 the direction it was moving above each dump as well as at the right of the line;
 each line with a bug, the head or tail is marked with upper case text at the
 right to make it easier to find.

2020/ferguson1/gameplay.md

@@ -423,14 +423,14 @@ inside itself.
 
 # <a name="shedding" href="#toc">Gameplay: Shedding (stretching)</a>
 
-This feature will make you grow by the value of **`SHEDS`** for every **`SHED`**
+This feature will make you grow by the value of **SHEDS** for every **SHED**
 movements (the counter isn't incremented when you eat a bug). Basically growing
 without eating a bug (stretching would be better name here).
 
 
 # <a name="winning" href="#toc">Gameplay: Winning</a>
 
-If you ever get to the **`MAXSIZE`** the game is won. You can force a win by
+If you ever get to the **MAXSIZE** the game is won. You can force a win by
 setting the max size to a smaller value than the size you specify (or the
 default) or setting the size to higher than the default (or < 0 which will end
 up being > the max size though I suppose there might be some value that makes it
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ the modes below.
 ## <a name="warning" href="#toc">Photosensitive epilepsy/Stimulation overload trigger warnings</a>
 
 If you have **photosensitive epilepsy please be careful** especially with low values
-for both **`WAIT`** and **`EVADE`**. It appears that the [number of hertz (flashes)
+for both **WAIT** and **EVADE**. It appears that the [number of hertz (flashes)
 per second triggering seizures][] is wide but depending on the variables it
 easily can be in the range.
 
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ snake to move slower you have to increase the wait time!
 
 ## <a name="evade" href="#toc">EVADE: Bug evasion frequency</a>
 
-For every **`EVADE`** snake movements the bug will try and find a new place to
+For every **EVADE** snake movements the bug will try and find a new place to
 occupy. It might be very close to it and I do not ensure it's a new place at
 all.
 

2020/ferguson1/terminals.md

@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ will take to win the game. The max bugs in the `bugs` line is approximately
 `max_snake_size / growth_size` i.e. how many bugs it'll take to win at the
 maximum (capped) snake size.
 
-If I pass in any of the variables **`GROW`**, **`MAXSIZE`**, **`SIZE`** and/or
+If I pass in any of the variables **GROW**, **MAXSIZE**, **SIZE** and/or
-**`LINES`** or **`COLUMNS`** it bases its calculations on those variables. For
+**LINES** or **COLUMNS** it bases its calculations on those variables. For
 example:
 
 ```sh

2020/ferguson1/troubleshooting.md

@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ X:0/157 Y:0/42 S:3/18446744073709551614 B:0
 ```
 
 
-BTW: There are two arrays that have to be **`MAXSIZE`** (technically + 1).
+BTW: There are two arrays that have to be **MAXSIZE** (technically + 1).
 
 Is it possible that some value specified by the user could mess this up? I do
 not know but what I do know is that because it's unsigned it can't be negative;

bugs.md

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ clang** despite the fact it might appear to be gcc: no symlink and both gcc and
 clang exist but the gcc is clang which you'll see if you run `gcc --version`.
 
 A tip and some fix methods from Cody: in the older days args to main() not given
-a type were implicit ints but when they're required to be `char **` this can
+a type were implicit ints but when they're required to be `char ** this can
 cause a problem. In some cases Cody was able to use a `char *` inside `main()`
 (see [1989/tromp/tromp.c](1989/tromp/tromp.c) and
 [1986/holloway/holloway.c](1986/holloway) for two examples though done slightly
@@ -3104,7 +3104,7 @@ This program supports only "Combinator-calculus style notation" of Lazy K.
 "Unlambda style" and "Iota and Jot" style are not supported.
 
 Also, it requires a space between identifiers.  In short, use `(S K)` instead of
-`(SK)`, "\`sk", `**i*i*i*ii*i*i*ii`, or `11111100011100`.
+`(SK)`, "\`sk", **i*i*i*ii*i*i*ii`, or `11111100011100`.
 
 Huge memory may be required to compile the program (about 300 MB on my machine).
 

thanks-for-help.md

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ char x {sizeof(
 ```
 
 This does mean that there cannot be a second arg to `main()`
-as clang requires that to be a `char **` and the `char` redefined would not
+as clang requires that to be a `char ** and the `char` redefined would not
 allow this. Some versions of clang say that `main()` must have either 0, 2 or 3
 args but these versions do not object to 1 arg. However as the `char` macro
 seems more obscure and it is possible that a new version of clang will be even
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ parameter. It has never been observed to be an error to pass in too many
 parameters to a function (`main()` or otherwise - it warns with other functions
 but does not appear to with `main()`) but only that `main()` itself has a
 certain number of args (in some versions) and that the first arg is an `int` and
-the others are `char **`s. This is why the arg was removed and the call to
+the others are `char **s. This is why the arg was removed and the call to
 `main()` was not updated beyond what had to be done to fix it for compilers that
 do not support `-traditional-cpp`.
 
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ program the added `input.txt` file.
 
 [Cody](#cody) fixed this to compile and work with clang (it already worked with gcc).
 The problem was that clang is more strict about the type of second arg to
-`main()`. However simply changing it to a `char **` and updating the `*s` to `**s`
+`main()`. However simply changing it to a `char ** and updating the `*s` to **s`
 caused a segfault. By adding a new variable, `char *t`, initialising it to `s`
 and then using `t` instead of `s` it compiles and runs successfully under clang
 and gcc.
@@ -732,12 +732,12 @@ publication, in the remarks, to help understand the entry, and for fun.
 ## <a name="1988_phillipps"></a>[1988/phillipps](1988/phillipps/phillipps.c) ([index.html](1988/phillipps/index.html]))
 
 [Cody](#cody) fixed this for modern systems. It did not compile with clang because it
-requires the second and third args of `main()` to be `char **` but even before
+requires the second and third args of `main()` to be `char ** but even before
 that with gcc it printed garbage and then crashed.
 
 After fixing it for clang by changing the very `main()` (in fact it called
 itself up to 12 times!) to call the new function `pain()` (chosen because it's a
-pain that clang requires these args to be `char **` :-), which is just as
+pain that clang requires these args to be `char ** :-), which is just as
 recursive, with the correct args it now works with both gcc and clang.
 
 Later Cody improved the fix to make it look a bit more like the original, using
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ might just not be possible.
 The way it was fixed might be hard to see and describe but this is an attempt.
 Because `main()`'s args were all `int`s, `main()` had to call a new function
 which is allowed to have args as `int` (instead of `main()`'s args being int and
-the rest being `char **`) but this is not as straight forward as it is for other
+the rest being `char **) but this is not as straight forward as it is for other
 entries (if you look at the code you might see what is meant; the function called
 is `pain()`).
 
@@ -987,9 +987,9 @@ four**, even though the original program has four args. This is because not all
 versions of clang support four args and that is one of the issues with version 2
 and 3 as it generates `main()` to have four args and the wrong type, all `int`s.
 
-In the call to the new function, `pain()`, from `main()`, one of the `char **`s
+In the call to the new function, `pain()`, from `main()`, one of the `char **s
 is used twice, once as `argc` with bitwise AND with 2, naturally first being
-cast to an `int` (`(int)ABBA&2`), and once as a `char **`, the fourth arg to
+cast to an `int` (`(int)ABBA&2`), and once as a `char **, the fourth arg to
 `pain()` (yes even though `pain()` takes all `int`s).
 
 The argc,, meanwhile, `tang`, is used once and the second arg, `char **gnat` is
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ used once (observe how `tang` is `gnat` spelt backwards as this is one of the
 things that makes this a masterpiece and very hard if not impossible to fix
 completely). Fortunately it is not actually necessary to use all four args (of
 `main()`) in the call which might or might not be surprising, especially as it
-uses one of the args, a `char **`, instead of an `int` (through casts), twice
+uses one of the args, a `char **, instead of an `int` (through casts), twice
 rather than just passing in for the fourth arg (the fourth arg passed in is the
 third arg to `main()`).
 
@@ -1710,8 +1710,8 @@ both numbers (using `"%o %o"` does not solve the problem).
 ## <a name="1992_westley"></a>[1992/westley](1992/westley/westley.c) ([index.html](1992/westley/index.html]))
 
 [Cody](#cody) fixed this to work for clang by changing the third and fourth arg of
-`main()` to be `char **` inside `main()`; clang requires args 2 - 4 to be `char
+`main()` to be `char ** inside `main()`; clang requires args 2 - 4 to be `char
-**` and some versions do not even allow a fourth arg.
+** and some versions do not even allow a fourth arg.
 
 He also added the alternate version that the author gave in the remarks that is
 specifically for the USA rather than the world. This had to be fixed for clang
@@ -1856,13 +1856,13 @@ compile time. See the index.html for details.
 ## <a name="1993_vanb"></a>[1993/vanb](1993/vanb/vanb.c) ([index.html](1993/vanb/index.html]))
 
 [Cody](#cody) fixed this to work with clang. The problem was that the third arg to main()
-was not a `char **`. Instead `O5()` (which was `main()` via `-DO5=main`) is now
+was not a `char **. Instead `O5()` (which was `main()` via `-DO5=main`) is now
 its own function which main() calls with the right parameters.
 
 Later Cody fixed it again to look much more like the original where only a
 single line is added, that of `main()`, which calls `O5()`. This was done through
 `-include stdio.h` at the compiler (in the Makefile) and by removing the `O3`
-variable (an int) at the top of the file, instead making it a `char **` in
+variable (an int) at the top of the file, instead making it a `char ** in
 `main()` (`O5()` had three args) but then passing in `0` to `O5()` for the third
 arg (as it was 0 at file scope already this is perfectly fine and it means
 there's no need to cast it to an int in the function call though that would also
@@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ by Yusuke.
 ## <a name="2001_cheong"></a>[2001/cheong](2001/cheong/cheong.c) ([index.html](2001/cheong/index.html]))
 
 [Cody](#cody) fixed this to work with clang by adding another function that is allowed to
-have a third arg as an int, not a `char **`. He chose `pain()` because it's a four
+have a third arg as an int, not a `char **. He chose `pain()` because it's a four
 letter word that would match the format and because it's pain that clang forces
 this. :-) This fix makes a point of the author's notes on portability no longer
 valid, BTW.
@@ -2932,7 +2932,7 @@ Cody also added the [try.sh](2001/herrmann1/try.sh) script.
 
 [Cody](#cody) fixed this to work with both 64-bit and 32-bit compilers by changing most
 of the `int`s (all but that in `main(int ...)`) to `long`s. He also fixed it to
-compile with clang by changing the args of main to be `int` and `char **`,
+compile with clang by changing the args of main to be `int` and `char **,
 respectively, and changing specific references to the `argv` arg, casting to
 `long` (was `int` but the 64-bit fix requires `long`) which was its old type.
 
@@ -3537,7 +3537,7 @@ back for arrow keys in the [alternate version](2006/night/night.alt.c).
 ## <a name="2006_sloane"></a>[2006/sloane](2006/sloane/sloane.c) ([index.html](2006/sloane/index.html]))
 
 [Cody](#cody) fixed this entry to work with clang which has a defect with the args to
-`main()`: it requires specific types: `int` and `char **` for the first and
+`main()`: it requires specific types: `int` and `char ** for the first and
 latter args.
 
 Cody also provided the [alternate version](2006/sloane/sloane.alt.c), which
@@ -3823,9 +3823,9 @@ Cody also fixed a typo in the ruby script
 
 [Cody](#cody) added the [try.sh](2012/grothe/try.sh) script.
 
-Cody also changed `argv` to be not `const char **` but `char **`, mostly out of an
+Cody also changed `argv` to be not `const char ** but `char **, mostly out of an
 abundance of caution in case clang, which already imposes restrictions on the
-types of args to `main()` including to do with `char **`, decides to further
+types of args to `main()` including to do with `char **, decides to further
 restrict them.
 
 Cody also restored the original code from the archive.