Landon Curt Noll
518a6336d0
By changing the _inventory_order_ of the compressed tarball from
**100000** to **1415926535**, the compressed tarball will land at
the top of the secondary file list and remain still easy to find.
Updated the `manifest.numbers` spreadsheet and rebuilt
the `.entry.json` files.
Added `next/` directory to hold the next IOCCC rules and guidelines.
Added `next/README.md` that `bin/gen-top-html.sh` uses to form
the `next/index.html` file.
Added _Rules and Guidelines_ link to the sidenav bar to link to the
`next/index.html` file.
Added _IOCCC Rules_ as `next/rules.md` that `bin/gen-top-html.sh`
uses to form the `next/rules.html` file.
Added _IOCCC Guidelines_ as `next/guidelines.md` that `bin/gen-top-html.sh`
uses to form the `next/guidelines.html` file.
Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "1.2.4 2024-04-13"
to "1.3 2024-04-14".
Prevent `pandoc(1)` from interpreting the commented out language
of a markdown code block as a code class. So a markdown such as:
````
``` <!---sh-->
...
```
````
that produced HTML of the form:
```html
<pre class="<!---sh-->"><code>...</code></pre>
```
will now produce HTML of the form:
```html
<pre><code>...</code></pre>
```
NOTE: Before when the language of a markdown code block
was not commented, the HTML produced by `pandoc(1)` was
oddly indented with extra whitespace on the first line
of the code block. While commenting out the language
of the code block removed some of the odd intending,
it left a weird class in the HTML pre block that
surrounded the HTML code block. This hack prevents
`pandoc(1)` from assigning a class to the HTML pre block.
Changed `in/md2html.sh` VERSION from "1.2.1 2024-04-13"
to "1.3 2024-04-14".
Added `make gen_sitemap` to end of both `make www` and `make
quick_www` in top level Makefile.
Ram `make www` to test under macOS and to perform the above.
**IMPORTANT NOTE**: The current `next/rules.md` and `next/guidelines.md`
are simply the 2020 IOCCC Rules and Guidelines converted into
markdown form. There are **NOT** the Rules and Guidelines that
will be used the IOCCC MOCK, nor the next IOCCC.
TODO: Improve the `bin/gen-status.sh` tool to modify the top of the
`next/rules.md` and `next/guidelines.md` files to keep them
in sync with the _contest_status_ as found in `status.json`.
TODO: Improve the look and feel of the `next/rules.md` and
`next/guidelines.md` markdown files.
Twentieth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Standard IOCCC stuff
View the index.html web page for the given winning entry for information on how
on how to compile it and how to run the winning program.
Look at the winning source and try to figure how it does what it does!
You may then wish to look at the Author's remarks for even more details.
The IOCCC has a web site and now has a number of international mirrors. The primary site can be found at www.ioccc.org.
Use make to compile entries. It is possible that on non-Unix / non-Linux
systems the Makefile needs to be changed. See the Makefile for details.
This year we included most of the information included by the submitters
in the README.md files (that were used to build the index.html web pages).
Read over the Makefile for compile/build issues. Your system may require
certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a #define).
Some ANSI C compilers are not quite as good as they should be. If yours is lacking, you may need to compile using gcc instead of your local compiler.
Remarks on some of the entries
There were some outstanding entries that did not win. Unfortunately some very good entries lost because they:
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did not follow the "one program - one file" rule;
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depended too much on 32 bit architectures;
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were more of the "obfuscated math" kind rather than the "obfuscated C" kind.
We hope the authors of some of those entries will fix and re-submit them for the next IOCCC.
We believe you will be impressed with this year's winning entries. The Best of Show is a fine example of character stitching. But don't ignore the other entries! There are games, puzzle solvers, utilities, eye candy, calculators and graphical and audio tools.
This year all authors are different, and there is a authors from a new country - China! Many authors won for the first time. (Please note that judging is done completely anonymously. Be warned that we may disqualify entries that reveal the identity of the submitter).
Final Comments
IMPORTANT NOTE: See contact.html for up to date contact details as well as details on how to provide fixes to any of the entries. See also the IOCCC FAQ for additional information on the IOCCC.