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+# Most likely to top the charts
+
+Qiming HOU  
+
+
+## Judges' comments:
+### To use:
+
+    make
+    ./prog < input.json > output.html
+
+View `output.html` in a browser.
+
+### Try:
+
+    grep -e '[-?+*/^&|.<>=]' prog.c
+
+    (cd ..; ls -lS */prog.c) | \
+    awk 'BEGIN { print "["; } { print "{\"winner\":\"",$9,"\", \"size\":",$5,"},"} END { print "]"}' \
+    > ioccc.json
+    ./prog < ioccc.json > ioccc.html
+
+What's not right with the output? How to fix it?
+
+### Selected Judges Remarks:
+
+This entry exhibits a way of obfuscation we haven't seen before, we think.
+The rulez of programming in an imperative language are violated, aren't they?
+
+Try figuring out how to increase the number of different colors, if you can.
+
+
+## Author's comments:
+
+Nowadays almost every programmer needs to do some Web chore. With all the open source stuff readily available, often we just need to call a bunch of libraries to generate an HTML page from a JSON feed.
+
+This entry takes such decadence to an extreme. It just calls a bunch of libraries to generate an HTML page from a JSON feed, literally. There is no variable (function parameters included), no operator, no flow control statements except a few decorative returns. In compliance to production coding standards, the code is littered with fashionable jargon, doxygen comment, and license text.
+
+As one would expect from such an approach, this program is much more resource intensive than it should be. And one needs a C99-compatible libc (with the common UNIX stuff) to build this and an HTML5-compatible browser to open the result. And it terminates with an assertion failure, but who cares if the web page is already generated?
+
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