Cody Boone Ferguson
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As the index.html/README.md files say 'Alternate code' the 'alternative source' has been changed to 'alternate code'. Similarly the text 'script to try alternative code' was changed to 'script to try alternate code'. A mistake was made where something referred to as being the alt code was not the alt code (or the other way round). Changed 'alternate alternative code' (or something like that) to 'second alternate code'. This happened in steps and it might not, now that I think on it, be the best wording, but this can be addressed later. Rebuilt html files and .entry.json files.
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: ;}.