• As of 11 Jan 1996, a number of rounds of judging have narrowed the field down to 15 entries.
  
  
• Another judging round has been scheduled on 14 Jan 1996 to try and reduce the field down to the final set. Things get difficult at this point because we have too many good entries to give out awards to them all.
  
  
• Much to our regret, some very interesting entries fell out in early rounds due to the fact that they didn't work! In one case one entry didn't work on the platform that the author claimed it was written on. In another case an entry didn't work on a platform that had a different byte order. Other cases is it not clear why things are not broken. Sorry but due to our work load, we are not inclined to debug obfuscated code unless an easy fix is obvious!
  
  
• The meal prepaired by Barbara Frezza, the official IOCCC chef, on 7 Jan 1996 was considered by the judges to be one of the best IOCCC dinners ever.

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