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IOCCC Winners Announced
Arachn1d writes "The IOCCC has finally announced the winners of the 2004 contest.
With winners this year including a mini-OS and a ray-tracer, the submissions should be interesting indeed - if you can make sense of them. According to the page, the actual code for the winners should be up mid-october."
With winners this year including a mini-OS and a ray-tracer, the submissions should be interesting indeed - if you can make sense of them. According to the page, the actual code for the winners should be up mid-october."
For those who don't know what this is all about...
It's all about how to obfuscate baby!
Since the summary isn't very informative, and the servers are rapidly slowing down, it is the International Obsfucated C Code Contest. About all that is (was?) on their page is the list of winners...
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
us1 mirror and see Google cache for more.
I once had a signature.
Not much. No source code yet. Here is the content of the site:
Here are the names and categories for the winners of the 17th IOCCC. The source code has not been released yet. The winners have been notified by EMail. They will be given a chance to review the write-up of their entry. Once this process is complete the source code will be made available on the winning entries web page. We anticipate that this will be in mid-October.
The winners are,
* Best of Show
Gavin Barraclough - Mini-OS
Manchester, UK
screenshot
* Best One-Liner
Eryk Kopczynski - OCR of 8, 9, 10 and 11
Warszawa, Poland
* Best Utility
Don Yang - A CRC inserter
Covina, California, USA
* Best Non-Use of Curses
Mark Schnitzius - Editor animation
Singapore
* Best X11 Game
Daniel Vik - X Windows car racing game
La Jolla, California, USA
screenshot
* Best use of "Precious" Lines
Anonymous - Rendering of a stroked font
Singapore
screenshot
* Best Abuse of CPP
Daniel Vik - Calculates prime numbers using only CPP
La Jolla, California, USA
* Best Calculated Risk
Brent Burley - A Poker game
Burbank, California, USA
* Best use of Vision
Nick Johnson - Curses maze displayer/navigator with only line-of-sight visibility
Christchurch, New Zealand
* Best Font Engine
Jeff Newbern - Renders arbitary bitmapped fonts
Springwood, Queensland, Australia
* Most Functional Output
Jonathan Hoyle - Curses based polynomial graphing with auto-scale
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
* Best use of Light and Spheres
Anders Gavare - A ray tracer
Gothenburg, Sweden
screenshot
* Best Abuse of Indentation
Stephen Sykes - Space/tab/linefeed steganography
Helsinki, Finland
* Best Abuse of the Guidelines
Anthony Howe - A CGI capable HTTP server
Cannes, France
* Best Abuse of the Periodic Table
John Dalbec - Conway's look'n'say sequence split into elements
Canfield, Ohio, USA
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Before it all goes down, here are the mirrors:
Asia
* http://www.tw.ioccc.org/ - Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (24 48' N 120 59' E)
* Australia and other Pacific http://www.au.ioccc.org/ - Sydney, Australia (34 0' S 151 0' E)
Europe
* http://www.de.ioccc.org/ - Hamburg, Germany (53 33' N 10 2' E)
* http://www.es.ioccc.org/ - Madrid, Spain (40 25' N 3 41' W)
* http://www.gr.ioccc.org/ - Athens, Greece (38 00' N 23 44' E)
* 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)
The IOCCC is a sort of piece of classic Hacker culture. That is to say, doing something difficult and mildly amusing just because you can. Also, to make fun of C for having such a ridiculous syntax as compared to sensible languages like Lisp. (Although by this day and age we've all grown up and seen Perl, so we don't care about that as much.)
Anyway, this is not merely "bad code," in the sense that an idiot might program this stuff. This is the sort of code you can only attain when you actively aim for it. You really need to know the language well to know how to fuck with it so thoroughly.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
http://uguu.org/src_rinia_c.html
The only reason I can even remember where this entry would be is because he's the one a few years ago that won with that strange Saitou-Aku-Soku-Zan combination program. Yeah, I could find utilities to do what his code can do on many other places, but what better way to show your anime fandom & code fanaticism by running something like this instead. ^_^
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