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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

1986/holloway - Best simple task performed in a complex way

prints hello world! via a recursive main

Author:

To build:

    make all

Try:

    ./holloway

Judges’ remarks:

Believe it or not, this is the old standard “Hello, world” program performed in a very complex way. The judges and the author defy you to determine how it does it. It is a good thing that K&R didn’t use this version as the first C program!

Author’s remarks:

No remarks were provided by the author.

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