Cody Boone Ferguson
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There were some which cannot be compiled under clang. One entry we used a patch from Yusuke Endoh to get the entry to compile; thank you Yusuke for your assistance! Another one we used a patch from Yusuke (thank you!) but I further fixed it so that it would work with clang. It had to be done: IOCCC Tetris has to work! This was done by changing the environment arg to main() to be a char * in main() itself rather than a char **. Using a char ** in main() third arg got it to compile but only one key worked with clang so I changed it to be not the third argument but a regular char * in main(). **a (third arg) evaluated correctly but *a[1] and onward was actually part of the environment. Again IOCCC Tetris has to work! I also fixed fubar to work which took a few tweaks. README.md files were also updated.
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Most humorous output:
Oskar von der Luehe
Institut fuer Astronomie
ETH - Zentrum
8092 Zuerich
Switzerland
To build:
make all
To get this to compile with a modern CPP, we had to replace #D with #define.
Judges' comments:
Run this program using your favorite text file as input. Files such as mailboxes, man pages and usenet articles are especially recommended. You will get different output each time you run it.
Run the program this way:
ovdluhe < textfile
The program stops when it reaches the end of the template buffer by chance or is killed.
Selected notes from the author:
This program implements an "Eddington ape" - it generates
random text from a supplied template. The template text file
is read through stdin. The larger the template, the better the
result. A maximum of 2**12 chars are used. From the template,
the program calculates the statistics of chars that immediately
follow a given string (correlator string) of a certain length
(currently 4 - can be varied by changing the definition for P
accordingly). A character is randomly chosen, weighted by its
probability to occur after the correlator string. That
character is printed to stdout and placed at the end of the
correlator string, whose first character is discarded.
Meaningful words are therefore usually preserved, the effect on
sentences can be dramatically random.
You might want to vary the definition of P between 2 and 10 and observe the result.
Copyright (c) 1989, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.