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Whither the 19th IOCCC?

Posted by kdawson on from the now-that's-obfuscated dept.

dazedNconfuzed writes "Whatever happened to the 19th IOCCC? The opening thereof was announced over two years ago and the winners' names were posted, but the source code was never released — leaving the results of the 2006 contest unknown as we get well into 2009. Emails to questions@ioccc.org just bounce. Surely the quiet absence of a high point of geekdom becomes news at some point!"

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  1. they are still... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    figuring out the entries

  2. slashdot front page- the new facebook? by drDugan · · Score: 4, Funny

    oh dear

    connection request: "kdawson would like to find you"

  3. Weird... this one too.... by nmoog · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've also noticed that this fortune city personal hom page from 1999 is still under construction... Any one know when it might be done?

  4. Maybe it's just my tinfoil hat speaking... by Count+Fenring · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of the entries involved processing through Nth-dimensional mathematic constructs. When the judges ran it, a quantum differential between our spacetime and that of certain elder influences was generated. A portal, luckily one-way, to the den of a million screaming chains was opened, and it swallowed all of the judges, who will be consumed for ten cycles of our universe expanding and contracting, and then spit out as the final weapon in the Old Ones' war on our reality.

    Or I've been reading too much Charles Stross

  5. it was bound to happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    AFAIK, after seeing all that messed-up code, they started using Python in 2006 and never looked back.

  6. Re:oblig bash by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they're suing Microsoft for publishing it as the OOXML specification?