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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:Could extend this to natural languages. by hvm2hvm · 2012-07-23 01:17 · 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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Re:IOC++CC and IOPERLCC etc by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-23 01:26 · 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!