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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. Or Underhanded C contest? by cras · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://underhanded.xcott.com/ doesn't mention anything about last year's winners and the contest ended almost 5 months ago.. The one time I bother sending a submission to these kind of contests and the contest appears to die :(

    1. Re:Or Underhanded C contest? by Xcott+Craver · · Score: 2, Informative

      I am the organizer of the UCC, and I apologize for the delay. We are normally pretty relaxed with our schedule, being academics; but this year I think more so, because the student who assists me with UCC is currently in deep hack mode on his own research project. I assure you, however, that we will have the results up within a month, or else we will lap the next contest!

  2. There, I've saved you a Google search... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest.

  3. winning entries by sdsykes_ss · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't have links to all the entries, but here is best of show: http://nanochess.110mb.com/emulator.html

    And here are my two winning entries: http://www.stephensykes.com/blog_perm.html?148

    Enjoy!

    1. Re:winning entries by sdsykes_ss · · Score: 2, Informative

      Oh, and by the way you can watch an ultra low quality video of landon curt noll presenting the winners here: http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/1429732/4906539 - you won't be able to make out much of the source code though.

    2. Re:winning entries by eulernet · · Score: 3, Informative

      On the same site, Knight's tour solver. 19th IOCCC. Best Small Program

      http://nanochess.110mb.com/knight.html