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20th IOCCC Source Code Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the how-the-heck-does-that-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The 20th International Obfuscated C Code Contest apparently has the turbo button pressed, as the source code has been published in only two months, versus almost four years of the 19th contest. As we discussed in February, the judges' verdicts are in: the Best of Show entry comes from Don Yang with a program containing more programs. Some other entries winning this year are a text raytracer (used this year in IOCCC logo), a MOD player, a X11-based dual player tank shooter and a bouncing ball (Amiga-style) with ANSI escape sequences. Remember that every IOCCC entry has a limit of 4 kilobytes, so indeed every one is pretty impresive."

3 of 46 comments (clear)

  1. Winners link by SimonCooper · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link to the winners and descriptions is, http://www.ioccc.org/2011/whowon.html

  2. Re:Poop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I eat poop.

    This is about C coding.
    Relating your experience coding Java is irrelevant.

  3. Favorite by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My favorite is still from 1987 by David Korn. Short, sweet, not arranged in a silly picture, not obscure due to lack of indenting or white space, and seems to exemplify the spirit of obfuscated C. Though it does have portability issues and intended for older compilers (try to figure out before compiling as compiler messages will give a huge hint).

            main() { printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);}

    I've always been tempted to give this as a question during interviews.