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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. I wonder... by slobber · · Score: 3, Interesting

    is there a similar contest for Perl? I imagine much crazier submissions with Perl than what can be done with C (no offense to C programmers ;))

    --
    "You mortals are so obtuse." -Q
    1. Re:I wonder... by Crspe · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Well, there is kind of a similar competition for perl ... perl golf ... where the aim is to write the smallest possible perl program to fulfill a particular task. The winners of these competitions are invariably amazingly obfuscated, and unbelievably small!
      One example - one competition involved calculating and printing out the huffman codes for a given input - the winner achieved this with a 76 character perl program!

      find more here:
      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=perl+golf
      or here http://terje.perlgolf.org/

  2. Maze of Code by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Compile with -fwritable-strings, run, type in a number like 20, find your way out...

    char*M,A,Z,E=40,J[40],T[40];main(C){for( *J=A=scanf(M="%d",&C);
    -- E; J[ E] =T
    [E ]= E) printf("._"); for(;(A-=Z=!Z) || (printf("\n|"
    ) , A = 39 ,C --
    ) ; Z || printf (M ))M[Z]=Z[A-(E =A[J-Z])&&!C
    & A == T[ A]
    |6<<27<rand()||!C&!Z?J[T[E]=T[A]]=E,J[T[A]=A-Z ]=A,"_.":" |"];}

  3. A tattoo of obfuscated C ... by Crspe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This I love - One guy went and had the first ever entry in the ioccc (from 1984) tattooed on his forearm ...
    http://tattoo.thomasscovell.com/index.html

    This I also love - the first ever entry was a hello world program!

    That entry was the longest one ever made into a tattoo, however there are hundreds of people around the world who have unknowingly had this entry tattoed on their forearm:
    http://www.de.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_smr

    This is really a great competition - lots of fun, lots to learn. Try understanding how some of the entries work, its really a challenge sometimes, and you can learn plenty about C and the preprocessor.