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Re: NQC Programmers do it on one line
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Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:43:36 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, steve <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:

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'.

I always thought the best way to do this would be to write a program to do it
for you. This way the computer could redefine every function and operator and
make the program absolutely unreadable.

You could even enter your obfuscation program into the competition, once you had
used the program on itself to obfuscate it.

Steve



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  Re: NQC Programmers do it on one line
 
(...) They run it through several "beautifying" programs, which eliminate all #define obfuscations. (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) 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 difficult to read and/or understand program possible. The limit on the size (...) (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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