Cody Boone Ferguson
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A number of question answers have been merged and shortened somewhat. Fix link in the menu of all html pages and the inc/ files that was broken due to renaming an anchor. The guidelines and rules have had a link fix (to the FAQ) as well as some additional points added about the mkiocccentry toolkit. More work in the FAQ needs to be done, including with the how to enter the IOCCC, but as so much work has been done already I have decided to make the commit to get these many important changes out of the way.
First annual Obfuscated C Code Contest
In 1984, the first contest was held. The name of the
contest was simply "First annual Obfuscated C Code Contest".
View the index.html web page for the given winning entry for information on how
to compile it and how to run the winning program. Look at the winning
source and try to figure how it does what it does! This year we only had
remarks from two authors but these came years later.
Restrictions against machine dependent code were not in the rules in 1984. The source file size restriction was only 512 bytes. Rules and results were posted to net.lang.c and net.unix-wizards. The contest was announced in a net.lang.c post.
Final Comments
IMPORTANT NOTE: 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.