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Death Of The Obfuscated C Code Contest?

Posted by Cliff on from the geek-traditions-hitting-hard-times dept.

slashdot-me asks: "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest that we all know and love seems to be stalled. The judging phase of the contest began six months ago in April. Since then all the judges except Leonid Broukis have abandoned the project. Has this 16-year-old programming tradition died?"

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  1. realization dawns by h2odragon · · Score: 3

    While they've been having their merry contests, the rest of the world has utterly failed to learn the lesson they were trying to promote and now calls what they do "programming".

    1. Re:realization dawns by catseye_95051 · · Score: 3



      *** Okay, a warning. This is an opinion some may find distateful. I respect that. Its my opinion. You are free to differ with it ***

      Some still call it programming...

      Others learned the lesson.. and went away to write less obfuscated languages.

      The problem was never the coders... the best coders write clean and readbale code in anything up to and including assembler.

      The problem was that C made it WORK to write such code (much as assembler does) and so the lazier or less disciplined coders didn't write their code that way.