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The 23^rd IOCCC Competition

The winners of the 23^rd International Obfuscated C Code Contest have been announced. Please see the following news items.

Goals of the Contest

• Obfuscate: tr.v. -cated, -cating, -cates.
  1. 1. To render obscure.
     2. To darken.
  2. To confuse: his emotions obfuscated his judgment.
     [LLat. obfuscare, to darken : ob(intensive) + Lat. fuscare,
     to darken < fuscus, dark.] -obfuscation n. obfuscatory adj
     
  
  
• The IOCCC:
  • To write the most Obscure/Obfuscated C program within the rules.
  • To show the importance of programming style, in an ironic way.
  • To stress C compilers with unusual code.
  • To illustrate some of the subtleties of the C language.
  • To provide a safe forum for poor C code. :-)

What's New?

• 2014-10-27
  • The winners of the 23rd IOCCC have been announced. Congratulations!
  
  
• 2014-10-20
  • The 23^rd IOCCC is now closed and Judging has commenced.
  
  
• 2014-09-23
  • A critical patch to the IOCCC size tool that fixes // comments has been made. Thanks goes to Matt Zucker for discovering this bug.
  • Be sure that you use version 2014-09-23-v19 (or greater) of the IOCCC size tool when you submit your IOCCC entries!
  • If you submitted an entry under Version 2014-09-04-v18 of the size tool, recheck your code using 2014-09-23-v19. If needed, modify your previously submitted entry.
  
  
• 2014-09-15
  • The final Rules, Guidelines and IOCCC size tool are now available.
  • The 23^rd IOCCC online submission tool is now available.
  
  
• 2014-09-10
  • Version 2014-09-04-v18 of the IOCCC size tool has been released.
  
  
• 2014-09-01
  • The 23^rd IOCCC will be open from 2014-Sep-01 02:03:04 UTC to 2014-Oct-19 18:17:16 UTC.
  • The submission tool will be available on 2014-Sep-15 15:15:15 UTC.
  • Draft Rules, Guidelines and IOCCC size tool are available.
  • Final rules, guidelines and IOCCC size tool will be available before 2014-Sep-15 15:15:15 UTC.
  • If you have any comments, corrections and/or suggestions please contact the IOCCC Judges
  
  
• 2014-01-03
  • The source code for the winners of the 22^nd IOCCC has been released.
  
  
• 2013-11-16
  • The winners of the 22nd IOCCC have been announced. Congratulations!
  • The winning source will be released later this year after the winners have reviewed the writeup of their entries.
  
  
• 2013-10-03
  • The 22^nd IOCCC is now closed and Judging has commenced. We anticipate that the results will be made available before the end of the year.
  
  
• 2013-08-01
  • The 22^nd International Obfuscated C Code Contest is now open.
  • Version 2013-07-30-v17 of the Rules, Guidelines, and IOCCC size tool are now official.
  • The 22^nd IOCCC online submission tool is now available.
  
  

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