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The 21st IOCCC Has Been Announced

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Could extend this to natural languages. by Rei · · Score: 3, Funny

    Along the lines of the grammatically-correct sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo".

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    1. Re:Could extend this to natural languages. by hvm2hvm · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not a good idea, a contest like that would only make language arts students think their college degree will be useful for something...

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  2. Re:IOC++CC and IOPERLCC etc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in: International Legible Perl Contest Announced!

    Extra points for using all of perl's obscure features and alternate syntaxes while still keeping things readable and even beautiful!

  3. Re:GREAT NEWS !! I MISSED THE 20TH !! by azalin · · 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!