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

Did Microsoft enter this year?

[Multiple Sanchez]

They haven't won since 1998.

IOCCC ENCOURAGES GPL ABUSE

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot the IOCCC encourages GPL ABUSE

Re:Obfuscated code contests?

[Anonymous Coward]

Very nice troll but it needs to be more pornographic like the ones you did whey you where a Wiccan. With the boyfriend complaining about Linux while fucking you in the ass. That is what the masses want. Keep up the good work.

the winners

[Anonymous Coward]

• Best of Show
  Jason Orendorff (USA) - An Adventure-like game
• Most likely to amaze
  Anonymous 1 (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
  Anonymous 3 (USA) - A suicide chess program
• Worst driver
  Anonymous 4 (USA) - A driver game

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I'm curious about this "troll" thing

[The Sojourner]

I hear this word doled out by folks on Slashdot a lot, but it must be some special geek code word because I have no idea what it means (beyond those little brown things with the foofy hair I used to collect as a kid :-) Would you care to explain it to me? Anyway, thanks for the, er, compliment (I think).