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
To use:
./klausler arg1 arg2 | head
Try:
./try.sh
Judges' remarks:
To reduce the size of the source, include other people's data. That is what Peter suggests when he describes how to generate a critical header file.
In other words: make use of other words! :-)
Rules might have to be changed!
Author's remarks:
A useful tool to help one appear extra smart and witty when IRCing, or even to just be highly annoying.
Finds best anagrams for word or phrase given as program arguments. Use only
lower-case letters in these arguments. Output is sorted firstly in ascending
order of word count (fewer words are better) and secondly in descending order
of word length. Pipe the output into more(1)/less(1)/head(1) and you're likely
to find the most amusing possibilities in the first few screenfuls of output.
For example, ./klausler fawlty towers | more quickly prints "waterfowl sty". The
fewer obscure short words in your system's dictionary, the better the quality
of the output; indeed, all one-letter words apart from a, i, and s (for
plurals) are ignored when the dictionary is constructed by make dict.h.
Some history and explanation: When I noticed the call for entries in this year's IOCCC, I submitted two of them. I worked on the first one very hard to obfuscate it beautifully, using a goofy algorithm, wonderful two's-complement arithmetic tricks, and cute formatting. It was a glorious work so lovely as to make even strong men weep in admiration... but it didn't win anything. On the other hand, this crappy little other program, which was only mildly obfuscated from its original hacked form, took home an award!
I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't even know which specific rule this entry
has abused. It's just yet another anagram generator and it was written very
late one night. And now I honestly do not know how it works, so please don't
ask. Upon reviewing the program after its unexpected honor, I guess that it's
remarkable only for its complete lack of macros, sneaky naming, main()
recursion, or other tricks. Enjoy!