IOCCC is open

[carlosponti]

http://www.ioccc.org/

for those who don't know what this is its the Obfuscated C contest where entries of C programs that do something but are almost unreadable. One of the Entries that won in 2004 is an Operating System for Example. Neat to read through if you can read C language.

[techieMoe]

I remember being told about this in my programming classes in college. A contest to write the worst possible code and make it as un-humanly readable as possible. Funny stuff.

[carlosponti]

At work we would come up with programs to do stuff for fun. like one year we wrote a program in the language of choice to Write Numbers to words i.e. Like the amount on a check having to be in Worded Print on the check. It had to be in the smallest amount of lines possible. The guy who won wrote a PL/SQL program in 12 lines that was Recursive which he didn't even realize you could do until he tried it. One of the reasons its difficult to do is because a program has to compile valid before it can be called and once you compile it sub programs that make calls to it have to be compiled. You have to compile the program once with the calls to itself commented out them once again without those calls commented. That guy was the one who told me about the contest a few years ago and showed me a program he had listed on his site. its way bizarre how people write these little programs. He had posted his PL/SQL program in a forum to have someone post one in perl in 1 line.