The id.sh and id.alt.sh scripts are (for entry and alt entry that I
submitted to the contest) are for those who want to try and prove that
'"intelligent" design' is real or for those who know better to see how
long it'll take Eric the monkey to type 'EVOLUTION IS A PROVEN FACT'.
These were both added by the judges at time of publication but I moved
them to the try scripts. Now however the id scripts limit to 250000 max
attempts (see below on this change) before giving up to save time (and
to maybe let them move on to the next step, see below also).
The monkey-words.sh and monkey-words.alt.sh are to see how long it is
before the monkey Eric can type 'words' or more likely how long it'll
take before he gives up or falls asleep. I am no longer sure if I added
this or the judges did but I'm pretty sure I did.
As for the max attempts this one might need to be moved to a second alt
version for both but if so I don't know what to name them. This
reconfiguration option was not originally submitted but to show what
will happen when Eric fails it was added. It would normally be put in
prog.alt.c but prog.alt.c already exists: a simpler keyboard. But if the
new feature was moved to prog.alt.c what would prog.alt.c be? Maybe
prog.alt2.c but then what about the simpler keyboard version? This can
be discussed because I am not sure I want it in prog.c and I am not sure
if it should be either as it was not part of the original entry (though
in retrospect it should have been). The try.sh and try.alt.sh scripts
now show what happens when Eric fails where previously one would have to
wait a very long time (max attempts SIZE_MAX - 1 is what it was set to
and still defaults to, being reset to it if it's < 100 which was
arbitrarily selected).
The Makefile has been improved to simplify redefining the macros that
specify how many offspring per generation to have and the max length of
the string (this has also been used in the try.sh and try.alt.sh scripts
if the user says they want to see the undocumented Easter egg).
The test.sh script now uses less(1) so one can look at the output one
page at a time.
The make test rule now has a '@' to silent the command being executed
('./test.sh').
Format changes in the README.md.
Update the test.sh and test-strings.txt files: modify the goodbye
message in the script (for fun) and add some fun strings for it to
search out.
Fix test.sh for shellcheck.
Minor fixes to README.md including moving the author information (that
is my information :-) ) to the first column of the file as not having it
prevents links from being generated right. This is a problem for the
other README.md files too and I'll be noting it on GitHub.
Some humour with html <del>..</del>.
Modified portability section to make it a bit simpler and suggest that I
won't be updating the list. I only include the original systems tested
for historical purposes. I won't be updating the list over time as that
would be annoying to do and would just make the already very long
document needlessly longer. It's already been almost 5 years since it
was updated.
Add a string to test-strings.txt.
Warning: these are most likely not the final fixes or updates for my
entries as Landon has pointed out :-) but there shouldn't be many more
for now or hopefully for a long time. Unless I see something I won't
feel the need to fix anything.
Update 2018/burton2/README.md to have my middle name.
The 2020 winners are hinted it, but the source code is not there,
nor are the hints. Someone could look into the HTML and
see what was commented out, but that is not a problem because
WHO won is known and the name of their AWARD is known already.
Moreover a number of the winners have talked about what their
entirs do, so the commented out spoiler text is not a bit problem.
One will find HTML commented out with:
<!-- XXX remove when 2020 is ready
2020 links here
XXX remove when 2020 is ready -->
The "XXX remove when 2020 is ready" string is found at the
start and end comment blocks. Again, soneone could read
what was commented out, but that is OK since most of that
information is known or can be known. The following files
have such HTML comment blocks in them.
./winners.html
./years-spoiler.html
./years.html
In addition, ./all/summary.txt was modified to not
include the 2020 entries for the momemt.
The 2020 winner code AND write-ups are NOT part of this set.
p.s. The all/all.tar.bz2 does not contain the 2020 source code (yet?).
Cody Boone Ferguson