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The 21st IOCCC Has Been Announced

Posted by timothy on Monday July 23, 2012 @12:31AM from the in-a-roundabout-way-naturally dept.

leob writes "As promised at the end of the 20th IOCCC earlier this year, the 21st International Obfuscated C Code Contest will accept entries from 2012-Aug-15 03:14:15 UTC to 2012-Sep-14 09:26:53 UTC. The earliest announcement about the next contest was on Twitter on July 13, giving the interested parties more than 2 months to polish their entries."

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Re:GREAT NEWS !! I MISSED THE 20TH !! by azalin · 2012-07-23 02:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

There are few things that are more NERD than entering (or actually winning) a contest like this. It requires creativity, programming skills, is hard to do, of very limited actual use and only a handful people will appreciate it. Have fun!