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The IOCCC Competition Is Back
Rui Lopes writes "After a 5 year hiatus, the IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Contest) is back! This marks the 20th edition of the contest. Submissions are open between 12-Nov-2011 11:00 UTC and 12-Jan-2012 12:12 UTC. Don't forget to check this year's rules and guidelines."
...it all started going downhill when...professional language designers abdicated their role, and the void was filled by amateurs...people who use these languages have no fucking clue what they're doing and we're all paying the price...
No, it started when we had to take over your obfuscated crap which is technically C but most resembles the bastard love-child of BASIC and assember, you know, the stuff with variable and type names like "__MfxVge__" you didn't bother to comment because you wanted to artificially inflate your worth? The kind of crap that would be easier to rewrite than refactor?
Your job security is my job security - Only your code will be forever locked in a vault and replaced with mine, which will live on because I know how to write comments and spell out complete words.