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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

1986/wall - Grand prize in most well-rounded in confusion

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Author:

To build:

make all

To use:

./wall

Judges’ remarks:

The original version did not have a ‘;’ character in the first line. This caused a number of System V C pre-preprocessors to gripe about a syntax error.

This program is a masterpiece of obfuscation and humor. Larry Wall (the hacker who gave us rn and patch) asks you to compile and consider the warning message generated by the C compiler. Then execute the program and type characters into its standard input. You will see why the compiler documents the program.

Author’s remarks:

No remarks were provided by the author.

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