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16th IOCCC Winners Announced

Posted by michael on from the hello_winners.c dept.

chongo writes: "The winners of the 16th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) have been selected. The judges are in the process of notifying the winners by EMail. We expect to release the source code around mid April 2002 after the winners have had a chance to review our writeup of their entries."

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  1. Notified via Email by tcd004 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you just notified them via Slashdot.

    The Shadow Government Knows
    tcd004

  2. Assembler by rif42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    > We expect to release the source code
    > around mid April 2002

    Will we also get a translation in assembler to help clarify the soure code?

  3. 10 minutes later and it's already /. by LuxuryYacht · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like this site is now the winner of todays International Obfuscated Website Contest due to the /. effect.

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    1. Re:10 minutes later and it's already /. by Fweeky · · Score: 3, Funny

      > International Obfuscated Website Contest

      Good idea. There are so many technologies that could be used in a way that obfuscates sites; Flash, JavaScript, DHTML, tables, tag soup, box model abuse etc; unfortunately I suspect some existing and popular sites may well prove too hard to beat.

      Still, could serve as a nice ironic way to point out why avoiding and abusing standards is Bad[tm].

  4. Re:Obfuscated code contests? by brennan73 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah! I said the same thing when they started giving out awards for the worst academic prose. But no one listened, and now there are hordes of people going into philosophy and English just to win prestigious awards for terrible prose. And don't get me started on the Razzies, which have clearly encouraged intentionally poor filmmaking. I mean, why would you purposely award bad things? Oh, the humanity!

  5. GPL Abuser WINS the IOCCC CONTEST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    GPL ABUSER has WON the IOCCC CODE CONTEST!

  6. To Fill In Those Who Are Slashdotted by Peridriga · · Score: 4, Funny



    The winner on this years contest is Microsoft for their submission of

    Microsoft Corporation End User Agreement

    Contributed by an anonymous user.

  7. An old anecdote by frozenray · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every time I hear about the IOCCC I'm reminded of this old anecdote:

    The highlight of the annual Computer Bowl occurred when Bill Gates, who was a judge, posed the following question to the contestants:

    "What contest, held via Usenet, is dedicated to examples of weird, obscure, bizarre, and really bad programming?"

    After a moment of silence, Jean-Louis Gassee (ex-honcho at Apple) hit his buzzer and answered "Windows."

    Mr. Bill's expression was, in the words of one who was there, "classic."

    (source)

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  8. Obfuscated Wok Contest by ZiZ · · Score: 3, Funny
    I believe that one of the entries:

    Best Abuse of User: Edward Rosten (England) - Greasy mouse

    also qualifies for the Iron Chef competition. Or am I alone in thinking that Greasy Mouse sounds like some sort of England variant on Chinese/Indian cookery? *grin* (I can't wait to see this entry. I love the Abuse of User programs...)

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  9. The bad news... by miracle69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The winners will be notified by Obsfucated Email guised as spam.

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  10. Re:Anonymous 4 by cheezehead · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's see some obfuscated Ruby programs.

    Or obfuscated perl scripts. Oh, wait a minute...

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