Modernise docs and helper files; adapt to GH #26
Description
A few things in the codebase and the documentation look odd in the GH world: there's no .gitignore, the license is more commonly called LICENSE[.md], projects tend to format documentation using Markdown instead of 90's plain-text indentation…
On a more meaningful note, if the code is to evolve it would be more inviting to new contributors if it made use of continuous integration tools that are popular on the GHverse, eg Travis; if it had a test suite, etc.
The suggestions given by Forkability may be a good starting point.