Landon Curt Noll
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Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**. > However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-) The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated. The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`. Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`. Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`. Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`. The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social** to process the new top level `social.html` page. Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13" to "2.0.1 2025-07-25". Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item as added. Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025" due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**. Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025". Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
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# Eighteenth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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## Standard IOCCC stuff
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View the `index.html` web page for the given winning entry for information on how
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on how to compile the entry and how to run the winning program.
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Look at the winning source and try to figure how it does what it does!
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You may then wish to look at the Author's remarks for even more details.
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Some ANSI C compilers are not quite as good as they should be. If
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yours is lacking, you may need to compile using `gcc` instead of your
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local compiler.
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This year we included most of the information included by the submitters
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in the `README.md` files (that were used to build the `index.html` web pages).
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### Historical note:
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The IOCCC has a website and now has a number of international mirrors.
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The primary website can be found at [www.ioccc.org](https://www.ioccc.org).
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### Historical update:
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The IOCCC website once had a number of
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[international mirrors](https://web.archive.org/web/20201030210517/https://www.ioccc.org/mirror.html).
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As of 2020 Dec 29, [GitHub](https://www.github.com) serves as the distributed server farm for the
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[IOCCC winner repo](https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner) that GitHub renders as
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[Official IOCCC website - www.ioccc.org](https://www.ioccc.org).
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## Remarks on some of the entries
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We believe you will be impressed with this year's winning entries.
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In particular:
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+ The [Abuse of the rules - 2005/klausler](klausler/index.html) used local dictionary data to
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get around the size limit.
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+ The [Most beauteous visuals - 2005/vince](vince/index.html) made clever use of `{}`s and
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whitespace in their source code and during execution.
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+ The [Most circuitous walk - 2005/vik](vik/index.html) entry is just amazing.
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+ The [Best game - 2005/toledo](toledo/index.html) makes full use of its single function.
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+ The [Best emulator - 2005/sykes](sykes/index.html) may allow you to reconnect to your first
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[PET](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET).
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+ Our [Best of Show - 2005/persano](persano/index.html) this year was simply (or non-simply :-) ) the best!
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+ (And we need only mention (parenthetically speaking) that the [Best use of
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parenthesis](mikeash/index.html) is self reproducing).
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+ The [Most sonorous output - 2005/jetro](jetro/index.html) might `sound` :-) like a good idea.
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+ The [Best 2D puzzle - 2005/giljade](giljade/index.html) takes editorial license with expressions as well as the
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with the [vi editor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)).
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+ The [Most ambiguous language - 2005/chia](chia/index.html) entry is really a C program.
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+ The [Most superfluous output - 2005/boutines](boutines/index.html) entry is simply
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[Voronoi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram)-lific!
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+ Try not to have your sense of good coding offended by the [Most
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discourteous interpreter - 2005/timwi](timwi/index.html) entry.
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+ The [Best use of the www - 2005/mynx](mynx/index.html) doesn't include those letters.
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+ You will be puzzled by the [Best 3D puzzle - 2005/anon](anon/index.html) entry; we are sure!
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+ The [Most ingenious puzzle solution - 2005/aidan](aidan/index.html) might puzzle you more while it
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puzzles out some puzzles: all in a puzzling way! :-)
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### Remarks on some of the losing entries
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There were some outstanding entries that did not win. Unfortunately
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some very good entries lost because they:
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+ depended too much on non-portable side effects in expressions; and/or
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+ depended too much on a particular byte order; and/or
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+ required the use of a special script, data file or pseudo-machine
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language that was not supplied with the entry.
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We hope the authors of some of those entries will fix and resubmit
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them for the next IOCCC.
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## Final Comments
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**IMPORTANT NOTE**: See [contact.html](../contact.html) for up to date contact details
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as well as details on how to provide fixes to any of the entries.
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See also the [IOCCC FAQ](../faq.html) for additional information on the IOCCC.
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