Restore missing 2018/README.md from 2018 preview
For some reason this was missing from the repository. I was certain that there was one so I looked at my archive and found in the winner preview repo for 2018 that there was indeed a README file (README.markdown). This has been added as 2018/README.md. It felt important that this was added back. I did NOT update the 2018 archive tarball as I'm not sure what to even call it - perhaps just README.markdown - but also because I'm not sure what the status is of my archive/2018 is. I fixed the formatting to match the style that is being used in this repo.
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# 2018 marked the "The Twenty Fifth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
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Copyright (C) 2018, Landon Curt Noll, Simon Cooper, and Leonid A.
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Broukhis. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational
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or non-profit use is granted provided this copyright and notice are
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included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses
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must receive prior permission from the contest judges.
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## Standard IOCCC stuff
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The primary IOCCC web site can be found at,
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> <https://www.ioccc.org/>
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Use make to compile entries. It is possible that on non-Un\*x / non-Linux
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systems the makefile needs to be changed. See the Makefile for details.
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Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs do, and run
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them with various inputs. If you want to, look at the hints files for
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spoilers - this year we included most of the information included
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by the submitter.
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Read over the makefile for compile/build issues. Your system may require
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certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a #define).
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Some C compilers are not quite as good as they should be. If yours is
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lacking, you may need to compile using clang or gcc instead of your local
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compiler.
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## Remarks on some of the winners
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We believe you will again be impressed with this year's winners.
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The "Best of show" (mills) is an amazing tribute to winners
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from 1984 and 2015.
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Take a close look at the "Most likely to top the charts" (hou) winner.
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Observe that while it contains no variables and no operators, it
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remains functional in what it does.
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The "Best one-liner" (burton1), at 109 characters, is a short and sweet
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implementation of a classic utility and a nod to a winner from 1986.
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Sometimes it takes 20 ox years to do things the true IOCCC way.
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The color of the remarks text this year was inspired by one of the stars
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of the "Most stellar" winner (poikola).
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The "Best use of python" (endoh2) is a not what you might think it is.
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It is something completely different.
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The "Most likely to be awarded" (ciura) has an amazing vocabulary!
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There are also nods to winners of the years 2000 (bellard), 1989 (yang), ...
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...We'll stop spouting spoilers now. Have fun exploring all the entries!
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## Remarks on some of submissions that did not win
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The number of entries that would have made it into the final rounds
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would have been much higher had some people paid attention to rules 2
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and 22 (one third of 666).
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Rule 22, now known as "Catch 22" states:
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| 22) Your source code, data files, remarks and program output must NOT
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| identify the authors of your code. The judges STRONGLY prefer to
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| not know who is submitting entries to the IOCCC.
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| The "Peter Honeyman is exempt" guideline also applies to this rule.
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| Identifying yourself, in an obvious way in your code, data, remarks
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| or program output, unless you are Peter Honeyman or pretending
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| to be Peter Honeyman, will be grounds for disqualification of your entry.
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A number of other entries were based on iocccsize.c, making derivative works
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rather than original works.
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Still other entries were too large, violating the first line of rule 2:
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2) The size of your program source must be <= 4096 bytes in length.
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While these entries might have passed under the 2053 limit for iocccsize,
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they were larger than <= 4096 bytes, sometimes by an order or magnitude.
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We hope the authors of some of those entries will fix and re-submit
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them for the next IOCCC.
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Some entries seemed to have a good idea, but the implementation of
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the idea was limited in scope.
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## Final Comments
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Please feel free to send us comments and suggestions about the
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competition, this README or anything else that you would like to see in
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future contests.
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If you use, distribute or publish these entries in some way, please drop
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us a line. We enjoy seeing who, where and how the contest is used.
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If you have problems with any of the entries, AND YOU HAVE A FIX, please
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send us the fix (patch file or the entire changed file).
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For the latest information on how to contact the IOCCC Judges please visit
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> <https://www.ioccc.org/contact.html>
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For news of the next contest watch:
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> <https://www.ioccc.org/>
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