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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. 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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    "There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton