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25th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018)

posted by martyb on Monday May 07 2018, @01:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-you-see-what-I-did-there? dept.

canopic jug writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday May 07 2018, @02:25PM (3 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Monday May 07 2018, @02:25PM (#676650)

    Nope, site still times out. Maybe it's a California thing.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @02:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @02:27PM (#676652)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @06:53PM (#676737)

    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

      by Gaaark (41) on Monday May 07 2018, @10:12PM (#676807) Journal

      Shit! You da Flash?

      Man you gets around!

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