Landon Curt Noll
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We move the "_Thanks for the help_" out from under the "Entries" menu and under the "About" menu to better balance the menus. Besides, "_Thanks for the help_" is more **about** the IOCCC itself.
To build:
make
To use:
./prog < input > output
Try:
./try.sh
Judges' remarks:
If you look closely at the source, you will see code that appears to puts C code that includes itself. How and why? Perhaps it is in the DNA code of the code? Perhaps there are 23 reasons? :-)
Author's remarks:
Remarks
This chromosome program synthesizes a double helix. The helix can also be compiled as a C program.
Enjoy DNA programming!
For more information / background reading:
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This program was inspired by Acme::DoubleHelix: http://search.cpan.org/~xern/Acme-DoubleHelix-0.01/
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The synthesized helix just includes the original program at the head. Do you see how prog.c determines whether it was invoked as a standalone program or included as a header file? Note that it does not use any gcc extension such as
__INCLUDE_LEVEL__. -
The synthesized helix of course follows the base-pairing rules for DNA: A is bonding only to T, and C is bonding only to G.