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+2012 marked the "The Twenty First International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
+========================================================================
+
+Copyright (C) 2012, Landon Curt Noll, Simon Cooper, and Leonid A.
+Broukhis. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational
+or non-profit use is granted provided this copyright and notice are
+included in its entirety and remains unaltered.  All other uses
+must receive prior permission from the contest judges.
+
+
+Standard IOCCC stuff
+--------------------
+
+The IOCCC has a web site and now has a number of international mirrors.
+The primary site can be found at,
+
+>	<http://www.ioccc.org/>
+
+Use make to compile entries.  It is possible that on non-Un\*x / non-Linux
+systems the makefile needs to be changed.  See the Makefile for details.
+
+Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs do, and run
+them with various inputs.  If you want to, look at the hints files for
+spoilers - this year we included most of the information included
+by the submitter.
+
+Read over the makefile for compile/build issues.  Your system may require
+certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a #define).
+
+Some ANSI C compilers are not quite as good as they should be.  If
+yours is lacking, you may need to compile using gcc instead of your
+local compiler.
+
+
+Remarks on some of the entries
+------------------------------
+
+We believe you will be impressed with this year's winners.  We had
+a very difficult time picking a single best from among the other winners
+because the overall quality of the winners were so high.
+
+This year we selected the top 4 entries for particularly high honors:
+
+*   Gold award - Balanced use of obfuscation
+
+    A very extremely subtle and twisted piece of source code!
+    Even if you start with the zeitak_deobfucate.c source,
+    you will still have a very challenging time to understand it!
+
+*   Silver award - Most elementary use of C
+
+    A fun program that could also have won "Best abuse of
+    Ghostscript" because it managed to create some PDF files
+    that Ghostscript could not read.
+
+*   Bronze award - Best use of cocoa
+
+    A picture within a picture is worth more than a
+    thousand (4 byte) words. :-)
+
+*   Honorable mention - Most complex ASCII fluid
+
+    When you see this program in action, you too will
+    very likely say [wow](http://bit.ly/R6ALpK) as we did!
+
+But don't ignore the other winners!  There are games, utilities,
+eye candy, calculators and graphical tools to explore.
+
+This year, Yusuke Endoh won with two entries, one of which (endoh1)
+won the special Honorable mention award.  Eight of the winning entries
+were from people who won in previous years.
+
+This year we had a number of winners from Asia.  We saw our second
+winner from China and first from Korea.  We are pleased to see
+outstanding entries from areas of the world that have not been
+active in past contests.  Will we see an upswing of entries
+from South America, Africa and Antarctica next year? :-)
+
+Please note that judging is done completely anonymously.  Please
+do NOT reveal your identity in your source code.  In the future we
+may disqualify entries that reveal the identity of the submitter!
+
+There were some outstanding entries that did not win.  Unfortunately
+some very good entries lost because they:
+
++ would take years to execute
+
++ were way way oversize and didn't even attempt to justify their
+  excess by a clever abuse of the rules
+
++ obfuscate themselves by simply invoking a complex
+  state machine
+
++ depend on a single obfuscation trick
+
++ could only be run on a particular vendor's platform
+
++ were very similar to previous winners
+
++ were based on an overused theme such as yet another
+  fractal display program
+
++ didn't work as documented
+
+We hope the authors of some of those entries will fix and re-submit
+them for the next IOCCC.
+
+There is a risk in submitting an entry that is similar to a well
+used theme by previous winners.  Previous winners set a very high
+bar.  A new winner must not only compete against other submissions
+form the current year, they must also excel over similar winners
+in some particularly impressive way.
+
+Final Comments
+--------------
+
+Please feel free to send us comments and suggestions about the
+competition, this README or anything else that you would like to see in
+future contests.
+
+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.
+
+If you have problems with any of the entries, AND YOU HAVE A FIX, please
+send us the fix (patch file or the entire changed file).
+
+For the latest information on how to contact the IOCCC Judges please visit
+
+>	<http://www.ioccc.org/contact.html>
+
+For news of the next contest watch:
+
+>	<http://www.ioccc.org/>
+
+
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