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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) has now posted the winning entries from its 25th event. The summary of winning entries does NOT contain brief explanations of each winning entry, so you can try to spot the tricks yourself. If you don't mind seeing a brief summary of each entry, there is an alternate page with spoilers linked to from the main page.
The goals of the IOCCC are to write the most Obscure/Obfuscated C program within the contest's rules, while showing the importance of programming style, in an ironic way. It stresses the C compilers with unusual code and illustrates some of the subtleties of the C language. Lastly it provides a safe forum for poor C code.
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25th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018)
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Snotnose on Monday May 07 2018, @01:50PM (10 children)
I'd have said the site was slashdotted. Now it's, what, soyled?
Whatever, it's not responding.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @01:56PM
archive.fo/www.ioccc.org/years.html [archive.fo]
archive.fo/9BlZw [archive.fo]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @01:58PM (4 children)
Perhaps it was, as your subject suggests, “years ago”, but I just downloaded from http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2018 [ioccc.org] (such as the tarball from http://www.ioccc.org/2018/2018.tar.bz2 [ioccc.org] ) and it worked fine.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday May 07 2018, @02:25PM (3 children)
Nope, site still times out. Maybe it's a California thing.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @02:27PM
Only if California recently emigrated to Europe... Because it's not really working here either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @06:53PM (1 child)
Site works fine for me. Just downloaded http://www.ioccc.org/2018/2018.tar.bz2 [ioccc.org] and while it took 10 seconds to download about 3.4 MB, it download just fine. I went to a new York site and downloaded from that host and it took 8 seconds. I went to our UK office, 9 seconds. From Paris, 10 seconds.
Maybe the problem is your network? Maybe "net neutrality" is impacting you? :-)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday May 07 2018, @10:12PM
Shit! You da Flash?
Man you gets around!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @02:26PM
Yeah, the word is "soyled", though I doubt there are enough Soylentils to bring down the IOCCC by ourselves :) Instead, it was "hugged to death" - I just saw the link posted on the HN frontpage [ycombinator.com] an hour or two ago (#1 then, #6 now), and it was already unavailable then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @02:58PM (1 child)
I love "Soyled!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @03:05PM
you would . . .
(Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Monday May 07 2018, @04:23PM
Hey now, no need for that surly language here.