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."

Comments

Here's an idea for a contest

[Anonymous Coward]

Write a program in one language, but make it appear to be in a different programming language. For example make a perl program look like a java program.

Re:Here's an idea for a contest

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice quine page. There is even my INTERCAL quine there !

Cheers,

--fred

Re:Did Microsoft enter this year?

[chongo]

We (the judges) don't look at who submitted the entries that did not win, so we could not tell you.

There was the Bill Gates award that was given out back in 1993.

On a slightly related topic, one can use the Best Utility from 1998 to pootify Microsoft's web site for better reading. :-)

Re:Assembler

[VAXman]

Assembler generated from IOCCC programs will definitely not be obfuscated. Most of the obfuscation comes from the preproccesor, and compilers generate regular, boring code.

However, it definitely is possible to write highly obfuscated assembly, which would be far worse than anything done in C. Heck, with "db" you can do anything you want, and with an instruction set like IA32 you can do all sorts of insane things. Self-modifying code is also a lot easier in assembly. :-)

updated list of who won

[chongo]

We have had 3 winners convert to non-anonymous status. The list of recent winners is now:

Best of Show

Jason Orendorff (USA) - An Adventure-like game

Most likely to amaze

Anonymous (Great Britain) - x86/ELF dynamic binary translator

Best abuse of the rules (Most complete program)

Fabrice Bellard (France) - A C subset programming system for x86 that can compile and execute itself

Best X11 Game

John Williams (USA) - Missile Command

Best Short Program

Raymond Cheong (USA) - Arbitrary precision square root

Best position-independent code

Brian Westley (USA) - A punch card printer/sorter

Best Abuse of CPP

Immanuel Herrmann (Germany) - A Turing machine

Best Abuse of User

Edward Rosten (England) - Greasy mouse

Best One-Liner

Jens Schweikhardt (Germany) - A shell glob matcher

Best curses Game

Kevin Pulo (Australia) - A Pong-like game across network

Most eye-crossing

Immanuel Herrmann (Germany) - A SIRDS-shaped SIRDS generator

Most obfuscated sound

Pierre-Philippe Coupard (USA) - A talking clock

Best primal ASCII graphics

Nicolas Ollinger (France) - Prints primes with a sieve graph

Best AI

Doug Beardsley (USA) - A suicide chess program

Worst driver

Chris King (USA) - A driver game