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IOCCC Winners Announced

Posted by Hemos on from the begin-the-headache dept.

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."

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  1. Funny, but sickening by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I always though this contest was funny, but in a dark and sinister way. I can't tell you how many times I've looked at someone else's code and spent hours trying to figure it out. In the real world, it's not funny.
    I'm amazed at how someone can acheive such obfuscated code without really trying.

  2. Re:Time to turn in your geek card... by Emil+Brink · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whoa there, turn up the humour and creativity-appreciation knobs a couple of notches please. I don't think anyone likes to see obfuscated code in production environments, but if you haven't read any IOCCC entries, you should. They can be real eye-openers when it comes to realizing what you can do with the C language (and preprocessor) when put in the right hands. Plus, it's just plain fun! :)

    --
    main(O){10<putchar(4^--O?77-(15&5128 >>4*O):10)&&main(2+O);}