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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

To use:

./wall

Alternate code:

If you have an old compiler or a compiler that supports -traditional-cpp you might enjoy looking at the original source in wall.alt.c.

Alternate build:

# if you have an old enough compiler:
make alt

# or if you have gcc:
make CC=gcc alt

# or if you have a compiler that supports -traditional-cpp that's not gcc:
make CFLAGS+="-traditional-cpp" alt

NOTE: gcc in macOS is actually clang even the binary /usr/bin/gcc.

Use ./wall.alt as you would ./wall.

Judges' remarks:

The original version did not have a ';' character in the first line. This caused a number of System V C pre-preprocessors to gripe about a syntax error.

This program is a masterpiece of obfuscation and humor. Larry Wall (the hacker who gave us rn and patch) asks you to compile and consider the warning message generated by the C compiler. Then execute the program and type characters into its standard input. You will see why the compiler documents the program.

Author's remarks:

No remarks were provided by the author.

This file is Copyright (c) 2023 by Landon Curt Noll. All Rights Reserved. You are free to share and adapt this file under the terms of this license:

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