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Re: NQC Programmers do it on one line
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:53:30 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Thomas Chesney wrote:
> > > > Hey, thanks for this.
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> The IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Competition) isn't about
> writing things in as few lines as possible (although there is a pretty
> tight limit on the maximum size of entries).
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> > > > I did realise this although I think there are contests for writing short C progs???
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> The objective of the contest is to write the most difficult to read
> and/or understand program possible. The limit on the size of the
> entries is mostly for the sake of the sanity of the judges who have
> to at least make an effort to understand the code in order to form
> an opinion about which is the most 'obfuscated'.
And obfuscated code is not limited to C - the Perl community has a culture of
enjoying obfuscated code, see: http://perlmonks.org/?node=Obfuscated%20Code
On 1-liners, when I had my Apple ][+ in the early 80s, there was a magazine
called "Nibble" which ran 1 and 2 liner contests using the built-in Apple BASIC.
I won 1 month with a simple 2-line driving game, only forced to go to 2 lines
because the command line input buffer was limited to 254 characters. I wish I'd
kept a copy, but alas I must have thrown it out at some stage.
ROSCO
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| (...) Well, for $90 you can get it back by buying 12 years worth of Nibble on CD-ROM: (URL) you can remember which year it was published in, you can buy one year's worth for $10. (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Competition) isn't about writing things in as few lines as possible (although there is a pretty tight limit on the maximum size of entries). (...) The objective of the contest is to write the most (...) (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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