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
To use:
./prog
Try:
./try.sh
NOTE: to interrupt the loops send intr (typically ctrl-C).
Judges' remarks:
And now for something completely different: A program whose metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians. It has kicked the bucket and departed to that mysterious country from whose bourne no traveller returns! This is an EX-tremely obfuscated program!
Author's remarks:
A high-context work that combines parrots that new hackers like and parrots that old hackers like. One is an internet meme called Party Parrot (WARNING: has flashing lights). The other is a sketch comté called "Dead Parrot" from the British sitcom "Monty Python's Flying Circus" The "Python" in the award name refers to Monty Python, not the [programming language Python](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language) (the name of the programming language Python is derived from Monty Python).
The shape of prog.c is "Undead Parrot" based on "dead parrot". The
message that appears in the bottom line of the output source code is the subject
of the dialogue that appears in "Dead Parrot" and explains in various
expressions that the parrot died. Also, the second __<-_Source_of_Parrots__
line from the bottom of http://cultofthepartyparrot.com/ (WARNING: has
flashing lights) has a hidden URL (hidden by the parrot's body).
Although it is a boring Quine story, it is quite difficult to have 10 parrot pictures and 10 lines of data. Only the outline data of the parrot picture is saved, and the body is filled in at runtime. These data are probably compressed with byte pair encoding.
The parrot ASCII art below is the opening line of the Monty Python show. The judge's comment "And now for something completely different" is also used in the opening.
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| |:.:.| | < It's ... |
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