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Cody Boone Ferguson 249e865de2 Mass edit README.md: remove top award/author lines
As requested on GitHub: a tool that will be written, readme2index, will,
as explained:

    '... will take the converted HTML from the README.md markdown and
    inject it into an HTML template. Things such title, award one and
    author information will be injected into the HTML page ahead of the
    HTML that was converted from the README.md markdown. Without going
    into details of HOW at this time, the result will be a coherent HTML
    index.html page with the winner title / award, winning author
    information, and important file links come from other sources and
    NOT from the README.md file.

    The text from the 1st award line, thru the authorship information,
    and up to but not including the "## To build:" line in the README.md
    file will just get in the way. Moreover authors might be tempted to
    try and maintain that top of README.md text instead of working with
    the author/_author_handle_.json and winner .winner.json files.

This was done with my[0] sgit(1) (https://github.com/xexyl/sgit) tool like:

    sgit -o -n -e '/^## To build:/,$p' '[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]/*/README.md'

[0] Is that shameless self-promotion? I don't know but I don't care: it
is generally a very useful tool and has been used in other repos too.
Besides, I've done it many times before and it's a great example that I
will be adding to the README.md file of the tool, one I hadn't thought
of doing.
2023-11-05 03:39:46 -08:00

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To build:

make all

Bugs and (Mis)features:

The current status of this entry is:

STATUS: known bug - please help us fix

For more detailed information see 1989 fubar in bugs.md.

To use:

./fubar <number>

Try:

./fubar 2

Judges' remarks:

Run this with a single digit argument (or wait a long time and risk an infinite loop as described above).

The blank line at the beginning of the source is mandatory. Do you know why?

NOTE: the file ouroboros.c is created by the program itself so this is why it is not in the repository.

Author's remarks:

In a nutshell, this is probably the slowest and most obnoxious factorial program ever written. Unfortunately, the name of the C source must be ouroboros.c; the name is hard-coded into the program.

The source is a legal shell script and a legal C program. The shell script compiles itself, and then executes the resulting binary, giving the source as input. The program works by successively modifying #define lines each pass through.

Both indent and cb will damage the program, indent much more so.

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