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18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest Opens

Posted by timothy on from the now-it-can-vote dept.

chongo writes "The 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest, the Internet's longest running contest, is now open. The goals, rules, and guidelines are available. Use the online submission tool to submit your obfuscated C code by 22-May-2005 23:59:59 UTC."

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  1. Not many languages could have such a contest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It does say something about the joy and beauty of C that such a contest is even possible. It says something about "learning from their mistakes" that you couldn't even have a contest like this in Java. You just can't write a valid Java file that is obfuscated to such an extent. A large part of it is that Java has no pointers and everything has to exist within a class.

    Wasn't there some kind of obfuscated vote counting software contest announced before the recent US election? I would like to see some of the entrants into that.