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5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-c-what-you've-done-there dept.

Xcott Craver writes "The next Underhanded C Contest has begun, with a deadline of March 1st. The object of the contest is to write short, readable, clear and innocent C code that somehow commits an evil act. This year's challenge: write a luggage routing program that mysteriously misroutes a customer's bag if a check-in clerk places just the right kind of text in a comment field. The prize is a gift certificate to ThinkGeek.com."

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  1. This sounds familiar to, by Icegryphon · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
    If anyone can do something underhanded and make it compile it is a C programmer.
    Of course if VB was an actual programming language you could say the same thing.