Landon Curt Noll
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Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**. > However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-) The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated. The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`. Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`. Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`. Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`. The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social** to process the new top level `social.html` page. Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13" to "2.0.1 2025-07-25". Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item as added. Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025" due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**. Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025". Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
To build:
make all
To use:
./anonymous
Alternate code:
The original version of this entry was added, by request, in order to show the code that was turned into the tattoo, as the alternate code. See below for the tattoo side-by-side with the code.
Alternate build:
make alt
Alternate use:
NOTE: this version might not work on some systems like macOS.
./anonymous.alt
Judges' remarks:
The author was too embarrassed that they could write such trash, so I promised to protect their identity. I will say that the author of this program has a well known connection with the C programming language.
This program is a unique variation on the age old "hello, world!" program. What reads like a read may be written like a write!
In 2005 someone by the name of Thomas Scovell got a tattoo of this entry. See his web page on the Internet Wayback Machine for more information on the tattoo. Along with the code, this is what it looks like:
Author's remarks:
On remaining anonymous:
Some years after this entry was published we asked the author if they still wished to remain anonymous and they said:
Yes, I want to keep my anonymity. But you can tell them that I am well known for my connection to the C language.
On the famous tattoo (see above):
The author, when told about this tattoo, said:
I feel honored that my entry will be the first IOCCC winning entry to become a tattoo. It is the first entry to become a tattoo isn't it?
Landon Curt Noll, the one who told the author about the tattoo, wrote back:
Yes, to our knowledge it is.
Regrets:
Landon Curt Noll wrote that the author regrets not making the program a
one-liner and not moving the int i into an arg of main() (so that the line
would have started with main()). On the other hand the author likes the "two
line look" and the way hell o was split. :-) And they like the fact that it
ends in a smily face: ;}.