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    The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (abbreviated IOCCC) is a computer programming contest for code written in C that is the most creatively obfuscated...
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  • programming contests reward the most creatively obfuscated code, such as the International Obfuscated C Code Contest and the Obfuscated Perl Contest. Short...
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  • amazing, and bizarre Perl code". It was run by The Perl Journal and took its name from the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. The entries were judged...
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    International Obfuscated C Code Contest and the Underhanded C Contest. C lacks standard support for exception handling and only offers return codes for...
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  • publish code poetry, including Stanford University's Code Poetry Slam, the PerlMonks Perl Poetry Page, and the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. Black...
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  • between double and float to distort values. International Obfuscated C Code Contest "Underhanded C Contest Revived". I Programmer. April 6, 2013. Retrieved...
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    arbitrarily large powers of 10. He also helped start the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, and is a co-inventor of the Fowler Noll Vo hash function...
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  • no perceivable architecture International Obfuscated C Code Contest, a competition to produce pleasingly obscure C code Technical debt The Elements of...
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    discuss]. ROT13 has been the subject of many jokes. The 1989 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) included an entry by Brian Westley. Westley's computer...
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    C programs from JavaScript. TCC has its origins in the Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (OTCC), a program Bellard wrote to win the International Obfuscated...
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    the theme of an entry in the 2000 International Obfuscated C Code Contest, in which a series of programmed source code featuring his anime portrait in ASCII...
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  • Cat's Eye Technologies. John Tromp. "Most functional". The International Obfuscated C Code Contest. Archived from the original on 17 January 2025. "El Brainfuck"...
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    IEEE Software. Spinellis is a four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest in 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1995. He is also a committer in...
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  • Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula. Bellard's entries won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest three times. In 2000, he won in the category "Most Specific...
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    1988, a C program authored by Ian Phillipps won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. The code, which according to the judges of the contest "looked...
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    client and the widely used patch program. He has won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice and was the recipient of the first Free Software...
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  • Printf (category Articles with example C code)
    February 2025. Carlini, Nicholas (2020). "printf machine". International Obfuscated C Code Contest. Judged by Leonid A. Broukhis and Landon Curt Noll. Landon...
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    command distributed in Unix version 4.2BSD) inspired the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC). Over the years, the Bourne shell was enhanced...
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    ASCII art – for instance, an entry to one of the earlier International Obfuscated C Code Contest is a program that adds numbers, but visually looks like...
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  • winning entries in the language C for the International Obfuscated C Code Contest: 1985: Most obscure program (1985/august.c) 1986: Best complex task done...
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  • Polyglot (computing) (category Source code)
    In 2000, a polyglot program was named a winner in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. In the 21st century, polyglot programs and files gained...
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    once won the "worst abuse of the rules" prize in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. The program was not actually compiled, but used cp to...
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    (Founder of Lenovo) Diomidis Spinellis (4x winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest) Edwige Pitel (Professional cyclist) Gavin Estcourt (Winner...
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    Perl (redirect from Perl code)
    in July 2000. As with C, obfuscated code competitions were a well known pastime in the late 1990s. The Obfuscated Perl Contest was a competition held...
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  • industry to submit their implementation in the form of (possibly obfuscated) C code. At the same time, everyone could attempt to attack these programs...
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    "Winter Contest Ends". Telegram. 2 March 2014. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2015. "Crypto Contest Ends". Telegram...
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    the Omrides' historical role in introducing Yahwism to Judah, which was obfuscated by anti-Omride Judeans. For example, Ahab gave his children theophoric...
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    by both the C/A and P codes, while the L2 carrier is only modulated by the P code. The P code can be encrypted as a so-called P(Y) code that is only...
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  • Washburn as his sub-contractor or as a co-writer was constantly being obfuscated," wrote Deeley, "and there were some harsh words between them later on...
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  • copying of code from UNIX code files to Linux kernel files and obfuscated copying of code, but originally refused to publicly identify which code was in violation...
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