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Please do NOT bookmark nor link to this experimental web site!

When this experiment is finished, this site will go away!

This test web tree is part of the temp-test-ioccc GitHub repo.

This web site will be undergoing major changes, so expect many broken links, typos and other problems. If you wish to recommend changes (understanding that things may be rapidly changing out from under your copy), then consider making pull requests against the temp-test-ioccc GitHub repo.

Suggestion for visitors

Explore the Winning Entries sorted by year, or sorted by People who have won.

Obfuscate defined:

tr.v. -cated, -cating, -cates.

1a. To render obscure.
1b. To darken.

2. To confuse: his emotions obfuscated his judgment.
    [LLat. obfuscare, to darken : ob(intensive) + Lat. fuscare,
    to darken < fuscus, dark.] -obfuscation n. obfuscatory adj.

Goals of the Contest

The goals of the IOCCC:

• To write the most Obscure/Obfuscated C program within the rules.
• To show the importance of programming style, in an ironic way.
• To stress C compilers with unusual code.
• To illustrate some of the subtleties of the C language.
• To provide a safe forum for poor C code. :-)

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nor can you send us a submission, because the IOCCC is yet NOT open.
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