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IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)

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zendist ◴[21 Oct 24 14:02 UTC] No.41904271[source]▶
How in the world did they come up with the obfuscated code for this? Surely they must be using a tool?
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1. bruce511 ◴[21 Oct 24 14:19 UTC] No.41904461[source]▶
no, it was a thing back in the 90's (and likely earlier.) The goal was to write a program that was "impossible to read". Some of the winners are seriously creative. And it's very much just smat kids and their machines...

I remember one back in the day which wasn't obfuscated at all. It was clearly a simple utility. Except that it didn't do what you thought it did, it did something completely different. (alas I can't remember the details...)

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2. thih9 ◴[21 Oct 24 14:50 UTC] No.41904814[source]▶
> I remember one back in the day which wasn't obfuscated at all.

Perhaps it was the Underhanded C Contest[1][2]? It's another competition, entires there often seem simple and perform something unexpected.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhanded_C_Contest

[2]: https://www.underhanded-c.org