16th IOCCC Winners Released

An anonymous submitter wrote: "A while ago the 16th IOCCC winners were announced. Apparently "releas[ing] the winning source by mid April 2002" actually means "within a year", but you can finally enjoy them here. Or, if you don't enjoy them, you can beat your head against the wall trying to figure out how these programs work ;-)"

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Mirrors

[Nidhogg]

Google cache of mirrors

Enjoy them while they last.

Better still ..

[artg]

.. look at one of the mirrors

some karma whoring.. mirrors:

[magwm]

• Asia
  
• www.tw.ioccc.org
  - Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (24 48' N 120 59' E)

• Australia and other Pacific
• www.au.ioccc.org
  - Sydney, Australia (34 0' S 151 0' E)
  

• Europe
  
• www.de.ioccc.org
  - Humburg, Germany (53 33' N 10 2' E)
  
• www.es.ioccc.org
  - Madrid, Spain (40 25' N 3 41' W)
  
• www.gr.ioccc.org
  - Athens, Greece (38 00' N 23 44' E)
  

• Extraterrestrial
  
  SETI is looking for some sites :-)

• North America
• www0.us.ioccc.org
  - Sunnyvale California, US (37 22' N 122 02' W)
• www1.us.ioccc.org
  - Saint Paul, Minnesota US (44 57' N 93 06' W)

• South America
  none
  

We are looking for more mirrors.
Do you want to mirror the IOCCC web site?

Re:Lost here ...

[pmcneill]

No, the contest is to demonstrate a mastery of ANSI C. Only someone who truly understands every intricacy of the preprocessor and the compiler can write one of these. A much better comparison might be something like an NBA slam dunk contest -- you'll see stuff that you won't see anywhere else and is completely stunning. Very, very few programmers could hope to create an entry such as these.

How To Write Unmaintainable Code

[CrystalFalcon]

There is a whole essay on the topic. Funny as hell a read, and good in-your-face material for co-workers, too.

How To Write Unmaintainable Code