Twelfth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

View the index.html web page for the given winning entry for information on how on how to compile and run the winning program. Look at the winning source and try to figure how it does what it does! You may then wish to look at the Author's remarks section for even more details.

The IOCCC has an official home page, www.ioccc.org, which contains previous winning entries, information about the judges, announcements and much more.

This year Sriram Srinivasan joined the judging.

The moderator of comp.unix.wizards did not feel that the IOCCC was “wizardly” enough to be posted to comp.unix.wizards so we will no longer post the winning entries to this newsgroup - we’ll let you the reader decide for yourself the wizardry of these entries.

This year there were several people who won more than once and several previous winning authors as well. The judging was done without knowledge of the names of the submitters - multiple winning entries were a coincidence. Since we tend to discount entries that are similar to previous entries, these people had to come with original ideas to stay in the winning entry circle.

We wish to thank CAIP at Rutgers University for the use of their machines.

A few notes regarding future contests

Due to changes in the USENIX conference calendar, the 1996 contest will be delayed. Because there will be no Summer 1996 USENIX conference, the 1996 IOCCC winning entries will be announced at the Jan 1997 USENIX conference.

The 1996 contest will not open until sometime in October 1996, and will close sometime around the end of December 1996. The rules for the 1996 contest have not been formed at this time and are not expected to be ready for distribution until late September 1996.

Be sure to wait until the 1996 rules are posted before submitting entries. Rules differ from year to year, sometimes in significant ways.

Please send us comments and suggestions what we have expressed above. Also include anything else that you would like to see in future contests. See How to contact the IOCCC for how to provide us with your comments and suggestions today.

For those who appreciate a bit of Internet history, this is how people used to contact the IOCCC in this given year, via Unix to Unix CoPy (UUCP):

…!{sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!judges
judges@toad.com

If you use, distribute or publish these entries in some way, please drop us a line. We enjoy seeing who, where and how the contest is used.

Final Comments

IMPORTANT NOTE: The email addresses found above are for historical purposes only, and should not be used today. See contact.html for up to date contact details as well as details on how to provide fixes to any of the entries. See also the IOCCC FAQ for additional information on the IOCCC.

Credits

We would like to thank Barbara Frezza for her role as official chef of the contest. Landon Noll, Larry Bassel and Sriram Srinivasan appreciated the opportunity to serve as official taste testers. And as usual, the food was excellent. The official menus of the 1995 Obfuscated C Contest dinners were:

Session One:

Antipasti: Crudites, olive selection, pickles, cheese selection
Soup: Homemade mushroom and green onion soup
Salad: artichoke, red bell peppers, Italian onions, cucumbers and Greek olives with mustard vinaigrette
Main Course: Pizzas, with a variety of toppings
Dessert: Chocolate torte

Session Two:

Antipasti: crudites, olives, roasted red peppers, cheese selection
Salad: Mixed greens with vinaigrette
Main Course: Spaghetti with tomato sauce containing mushrooms and black olives selection of hot and mild Italian sausages
Bread: Fresh French bread
Dessert: Cookie selection, featuring chocolate chocolate chip cookies and chocolate butter cookies

Session Three

Antipasti: Crudites, olive selection
Salad: Mixed greens with mustard vinaigrette
Main Course: Broiled salmon with lemon pepper mayonnaise, chard, mixture of white and wild rices
Bread: Cheese bread with herbs
Dessert: Chocolate cheesecake (Courtesy of Elizabeth Watson)

Session Four:

Antipasti: Crudites, olive selection, roasted red peppers, cheese selection
Bread: Sourdough
Salad: Mixed spring greens with flowers, and mustard vinaigrette
Main Course: Surf and Turf–Grilled steaks of salmon and New York steak grilled vegetables–onions, peppers, portobello mushrooms wild rice
Dessert: Chocolate mousse

Session Five:

Antipasti: Crudites, olive selection, pickles
Salad: Mixed spring greens with mustard vinaigrette
Main Course: Linguini with a cream sauce of shiitake mushrooms and smoked salmon
Bread: Garlic bread
Dessert: Flour-less chocolate torte

Session Six:

Antipasti: Carrot and celery sticks with cheese spread, olive selection, pickles
Bread: Focaccia with black olives and mozzarella cheeses
Salad: Mixed spring greens with flowers and mustard vinaigrette
Soup: Homemade butternut squash soup with mushrooms
Main Course: Cracked Dungeness crab with lemon mayonnaise, broccoli, mixture of white and brown rice
Dessert: Key lime pie

Download all winning entries from 1995

• 1995/cdua - Best output
• 1995/dodsond1 - Most humorous
• 1995/dodsond2 - Best game
• 1995/esde - Interesting algorithm
• 1995/garry - Best utility
• 1995/heathbar - Best layout
• 1995/leo - Best use of obfuscation
• 1995/makarios - Best short program
• 1995/savastio - Most obfuscated syntax
• 1995/schnitzi - Best one liner
• 1995/spinellis - Abusing the rules
• 1995/vanschnitz - Worst abuse of the C preprocessor and most likely to amaze

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