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IOCCC 2006 is now open
leob writes "The 19th International Obfuscated C Code Contest opened one minute before the New Year to qualify for the 2006 designation. Entries accepted until the end of February. Start writing and submitting your entries now!"
I for one find it appalling that only C is allowed. What about Plus or Sharp? They have the same rights as the high and mighty C does. What this amounts to is pure and simple racism. This brings us right back to the coding rights movement of the 80's. I cannot believe we are still struggling.
I'm so mad, I'm calling Jess-C Jackson. He'll get Al #ton on the phone as well.
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Having the 2006 competition run in 2007...
It's like they are setting out to create a contest that is unclear and needlessly difficult to understand.
A contestant would submit a piece of code together with the specification of what the code was supposed to do, but no other documentation.
The judges would propose a straightforward change in the specification.
The code and the revised specification would be given to an impartial panel of a hundred programmers, selected at random from the ranks of people working for a living writing code. Each of them would be asked to modify the code to meet the revised spec. They would also be instructed to fix any bugs they noticed in the code they were given. The revised code and spec would then submit each one to an impartial panel of 100 SQA testers, selected at random from the ranks of people who work for a living testing code.
The winner would be the contestant whose code, after being modified by other programmers, passed the largest number of SQA tests.
(And, yes, SQA failures due to unfixed bugs in the original code would count against the contestant).
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