Landon Curt Noll
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While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic TAB indentation within markdown files. After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB characters. And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that might have on the HTML files they produce. Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round** formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by problematic ASCII TAB characters. Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading TAB characters within markdown files. TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
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To build:
make all
To use:
./scjones
Try:
./try.sh
Judges' remarks:
The addition of trigraphs has made it easier to make programs hard to read. It was a dark and stormy night for C when the ANSI C committee added trigraphs to the standard. Too bad that they didn't just simply require a more reasonable ISO character set.
The Author sent us this note after he was informed that he won:
Although I am quite grateful for the "
ANSI Committee's Worst Abuse of C" title (were you aware that I am a member of the committee or is the double meaning unintentional?), I was really hoping for something more along the lines of "Closest Resemblance to Line Noise." :-)
... it was unintentional.
Author's remarks:
Since this year's contest is dedicated to ANSI C, here is a strictly conforming
entry. In accordance with the ANSI definition of a strictly conforming program
it does not produce output dependent on any unspecified, undefined, or
implementation defined behavior, and it does not exceed any of the minimum
implementation limits. It adheres to all of the syntactic and semantic
constraints of the standard: it #includes the relevant headers for the
functions it uses, and it uses the EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE macros to
return a correct success/fail status to the invoking program. It also uses
trigraphs for characters which are not in the Invariant Code Set of ISO 646:1983, so it will be portable to machines with deficient (from C's
standpoint) character sets. In short, it should be very widely portable. As an
extra added attraction, all of the lines are under 72 characters long, which
would allow for sequence numbers to be punched in columns 73-80 :-).