Liam Provenlproven@vivaldi.net
Jul 5, 2026, 7:54 PMC programmers commit fresh crimes against readability
Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
<- The IOCCC29 -- by me on #TheRegister
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int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...)nrmacdonald@mastodon.socialJul 5, 2026, 7:58 PM@lproven
Obfuscated C was the great carnival of my past. Don't malign the players mate just hide your pointer(s).- Liam Provenlproven@vivaldi.netJul 5, 2026, 8:40 PM
@nrmacdonald I'm absolutely not maligning anyone. I'm in awe of this stuff.
- int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...)nrmacdonald@mastodon.socialJul 5, 2026, 8:50 PM
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Dual purpose game and frustrating amateurs in memory mazes with phantom pointers to pointers in never land .
I guarantee some of my code is still running in [not for public release]. - Liam Provenlproven@vivaldi.netJul 6, 2026, 9:16 AM
@nrmacdonald
P. S. On rereading your comment the next day... I don't write the headlines, only the article copy. - int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...)nrmacdonald@mastodon.socialJul 6, 2026, 10:28 AM
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headline writers suck arse - Liam Provenlproven@vivaldi.netJul 6, 2026, 3:04 PM
@nrmacdonald No, but they have a much better idea of what will draw the clicks then we humble scribes.
- int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...)nrmacdonald@mastodon.socialJul 6, 2026, 4:02 PM
@lproven
Ja oder. That's their stinking job, revenue over info because the gross number of clickers never read past the headline which is why they suck arse. I will die on this wee mound of dreck. 
Stewart Russellscruss@xoxo.zoneJul 5, 2026, 8:27 PM@lproven Adrian Cable's winner feels a lot like a demented version of the CHIP8 early game VM. Except, y'know, with only one instruction and far better graphics
David Smithscudderfish@weird.autosJul 5, 2026, 8:43 PM@lproven I always thought it was telling that Larry Wall won it at the same time he was creating Perl
- Liam Provenlproven@vivaldi.netJul 5, 2026, 9:04 PM
@scudderfish Could be worse. Seen the code Arthur Witney wrote when implementing APL?
And of course the whole thing was started by Bourne's code creating his eponymous Shell.