Landon Curt Noll
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Move copyright notice to the end. Add a standard comment about the newly added `README.md` files. Clean up trailing whitespace. Fixed a few minor typos.
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1987 marked the "The Fourth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
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Look at the README.md file for the given winner for information
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on how to compile the winner 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 comments for even more details.
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The rules for 1987 suggested even more categories than in 1986. Hints
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for what to do and not to do were also given in the rules. For
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example, a simple excessive abuse of /lib/cpp was discouraged unless
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the abuse was unusual. The mailboxes for the contest were moved from
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nsc to amdahl. The practice of posting a preliminary set of rules for
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the next year was started this year.
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Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.unix.wizards with
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an announcement in news.announce.important. Micro/Systems Journal
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published the 1987 winners. Mark Horton included a version of the 1987
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winners in an appendix of his C book. The first announcement of
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winners at the Summer 87 Usenix was helped by a small fly that
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danced all over the foils.
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=-=
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Copyright (c) 1987, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
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All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
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granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
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and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
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from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.
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