Landon Curt Noll
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The 2020 winners are hinted it, but the source code is not there,
nor are the hints. Someone could look into the HTML and
see what was commented out, but that is not a problem because
WHO won is known and the name of their AWARD is known already.
Moreover a number of the winners have talked about what their
entirs do, so the commented out spoiler text is not a bit problem.
One will find HTML commented out with:
<!-- XXX remove when 2020 is ready
2020 links here
XXX remove when 2020 is ready -->
The "XXX remove when 2020 is ready" string is found at the
start and end comment blocks. Again, soneone could read
what was commented out, but that is OK since most of that
information is known or can be known. The following files
have such HTML comment blocks in them.
./winners.html
./years-spoiler.html
./years.html
In addition, ./all/summary.txt was modified to not
include the 2020 entries for the momemt.
The 2020 winner code AND write-ups are NOT part of this set.
p.s. The all/all.tar.bz2 does not contain the 2020 source code (yet?).
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1989 marked the "The Sixth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
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Copyright (c) 1989, 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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Instructions for use: Run make to compile entries (it is possible
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that on System V or non-unix systems the makefile needs to be
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changed). Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs
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do, and run them with various inputs. If you want to, look at the
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hints files for (minor) spoilers.
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This year, the Grand Prize was given to the most useful program.
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The "Strangest abuse of the rules" award was given this year to stress
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the fact that starting in 1990, compiling entries must result an
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executable regular file.
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In two other cases, we included System V portable versions of winning
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programs. The makefile always uses the portable version of the "Best
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self modifying program" because there as no loss of functionality in
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using it. In the case of the "Best game" winner, however, some
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functionality is lost in the portable version and so the makefile uses
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the original program. System V users may need to change the makefile
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to use the s5 version. See the hint files or the Makefile for details.
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Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.sources.unix, and
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alt.sources. They have been made available on a wide number of Usenet
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archive sites such as uunet. The 1989 winners will be published in the
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Micro/Systems Journal.
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