16th IOCCC Winners Announced

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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Notified via Email

[tcd004]

I think you just notified them via Slashdot.

The Shadow Government Knows
tcd004

Assembler

[rif42]

> 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?

Re:Obfuscated code contests?

[brennan73]

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!

To Fill In Those Who Are Slashdotted

[Peridriga]

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

Microsoft Corporation End User Agreement

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An old anecdote

[frozenray]

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."

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