diff --git a/README.html b/README.html index eb6edfb76..15fb61979 100644 --- a/README.html +++ b/README.html @@ -447,8 +447,11 @@ mealy-mouthed denials and obfuscations.

The official IOCCC website is www.ioccc.org.

How it was started:

The original inspiration of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest came -from the Bourne Shell source and the finger(1) command as distributed in -4.2BSD. +from the Bourne Shell source and the +finger(1) command +along with its associated +fingerd(8) daemon +from early 4BSD. If this is what could result from what some people claim is reasonable programming practice, then to what depths might quality sink if people really tried to write poor code?

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0ab457a52..2a44d9601 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ The official IOCCC website is [www.ioccc.org](https://www.ioccc.org). ## How it was started: The original inspiration of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest came -from the Bourne Shell source and the `finger(1)` command as distributed in -[4.2BSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution#4.2BSD). +from the Bourne Shell source and the +[finger(1)](https://github.com/dank101/4.2BSD/blob/708b3890ac0c2f034f2840b5ee9125b3c83a05bc/ucb/finger.c) command +along with its associated +[fingerd(8)](https://github.com/dank101/4.3BSD-Reno/tree/master/libexec/fingerd) daemon +from early 4BSD. If this is what could result from what some people claim is reasonable programming practice, then to what depths might quality sink if people really tried to write poor code? diff --git a/faq.html b/faq.html index 60f4dac4a..9cf0be874 100644 --- a/faq.html +++ b/faq.html @@ -5258,8 +5258,11 @@ judging the IOCCC. A Unix man page for cb and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.

Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code #defined -to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the finger(1) -program from early BSD (a bug ridden finger implementation to be sure).

+to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the +finger(1) command +along with its associated +fingerd(8) daemon +from early 4BSD.

We happened to both wander (at the same time) out to the hallway in Building 7C to clear our heads.

We began to compare notes: ‘You won’t believe the code I am trying to fix’.

diff --git a/faq.md b/faq.md index 86aab2780..38be6bee7 100644 --- a/faq.md +++ b/faq.md @@ -6553,8 +6553,11 @@ and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code. Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code `#define`d -to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the `finger(1)` -program from early BSD (a bug ridden `finger` implementation to be sure). +to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the +[finger(1)](https://github.com/dank101/4.2BSD/blob/708b3890ac0c2f034f2840b5ee9125b3c83a05bc/ucb/finger.c) command +along with its associated +[fingerd(8)](https://github.com/dank101/4.3BSD-Reno/tree/master/libexec/fingerd) daemon +from early 4BSD. We happened to both wander (at the same time) out to the hallway in Building 7C to clear our heads. diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml index a2a7a3096..f009bcc9f 100644 --- a/sitemap.xml +++ b/sitemap.xml @@ -15414,11 +15414,11 @@ https://www.ioccc.org/faq.html - 2025-01-16T23:38:07+00:00 + 2025-01-18T09:47:55+00:00 https://www.ioccc.org/faq.md - 2025-01-16T23:38:07+00:00 + 2025-01-18T09:45:58+00:00 https://www.ioccc.org/inc/index.html @@ -15466,11 +15466,11 @@ https://www.ioccc.org/README.html - 2025-01-10T06:50:02+00:00 + 2025-01-18T09:47:59+00:00 https://www.ioccc.org/README.md - 2025-01-10T06:43:52+00:00 + 2025-01-18T09:46:04+00:00 https://www.ioccc.org/robots.txt