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Winners of the 18th IOCCC

Posted by Zonk on from the say-that-five-times-fast dept.

achowe writes "The winners of the 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest have been announced. This years winners include a 'Commodore PET emulator', 'Sound generation with SDL audio', and a 'Text WWW Browser'."

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  1. Re:No Source Code? by jtorkbob · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, as I'm leading to, it would be extremely hard to read

    You mean like a huge block of text with no line breaks?

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  2. Surprise Winner! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "And out of nowhere, Sony Computer Entertainment & First 4 Internet ranked first with their obfuscated rootkit!"

  3. Re:No Source Code? by IdahoEv · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait until the code is out! I'm really excited by this one:

    Most superfluous output

    Francois Boutines - XML Voronoi diagrams generator
    Toulouse, France

    I've been wanting to write a voronoi generator for a game-map-development project (maps for a Risk clone). But I could only find mathematical definitions, not any good code that clearly laid out the algorithm. Hopefully this program will be nice and clear (and well-documented!) so that I can reproduce the algorithm from it.

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