diff --git a/1998/schnitzi/README.md b/1998/schnitzi/README.md index 42811964d..fd2825440 100644 --- a/1998/schnitzi/README.md +++ b/1998/schnitzi/README.md @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ This is a beautiful program. How can a program with no conditional (except for the fixes for modern systems) behavior at all have output which depends on anything? -For hints on deciphering this, see below past the Author's Comments; +For hints on deciphering this, see below past the Author's remarks; they're a nice summary, but they leave the mystery intact. BTW: the author notes an incredible lipogram story called @@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ In literary circles, there is a poetic form called a "lipogram", which is a poem in which a specific letter has been distinctly avoided. This principle can be applied in other ways. For instance, in this paragraph, the vowel which immediately follows -'t' in the alphabet is nowhere to be seen. There is even an +`t` in the alphabet is nowhere to be seen. There is even an entire novel (E. V. Wright's "Gadsby") in which no word contains -the letter 'e'. +the letter `e`. The IOCCC has been no stranger to this concept. Several winning entries from years past have accomplished interesting feats while completely avoiding the use @@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ In continuing with this fine tradition, this program suggests to the ANSI committee some new practical simplifications for the C language. For instance, it appears that CONDITIONAL BRANCHING isn't really necessary. So, we can do away with `while`, `do...while`, `for`, `if`/`else`, `switch`, `?:`, or anything -else that might cause any kind of nondeterministic jump in the code. There's +else that might cause any kind of non-deterministic jump in the code. There's too much uncertainty in the world anyway. Function parameters and return types just confuse people anyway, so get rid of them. Same with local variables. In fact, all you really -need are assignment statements, and maybe one `printf()` and one `goto`. +need are assignment statements, and maybe one `printf(3)` and one `goto`. This style of programming is also ideal for systems with limited memory capacity, since the function call stack never goes beyond @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ line, such as ./schnitzi 5 ``` -The output will itself be a lipographic program, one which inputs +The output will itself be a lipographic program, one which expects input of (in this case) five numbers and prints them out sorted. It sorts them, however, using only `if/else` statements, without arrays or looping. To see the resulting program run, redirect the output from diff --git a/thanks-for-fixes.md b/thanks-for-fixes.md index db2e07236..9772e1152 100644 --- a/thanks-for-fixes.md +++ b/thanks-for-fixes.md @@ -2060,8 +2060,9 @@ to be compiled. Now it works with both Linux and macOS (and BSD?). Cody fixed invalid data types which prevented this entry from working, causing a segfault. This showed itself in two parts which required two fixes, one for linux and further changes for macOS. He also fixed a segfault (after printing -garbage) when the arg specified evaluated to 0. It was decided that these -segfault fixes should be made because the program is so beautiful. +garbage) when the arg specified evaluated to 0. It was decided by us, the +judges, that these segfault fixes should be made because the program is so +beautiful. Later on Cody improved the fixes by checking that the arg is a number `>0 && <27` as that was noted by the author as a requirement and again since it's such