The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

The 17th IOCCC Winners

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Here are the names and categories for the winners of the 17th IOCCC. The source code has not been released yet. The winners have been notified by EMail. They will be given a chance to review the write-up of their entry. Once this process is complete the source code will be made available on the winning entries web page. We anticipate that this will be in mid-October.

The winners are,

• Best of Show

  Gavin Barraclough - Mini-OS
  Manchester, UK

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• Best One-Liner

  Eryk Kopczynski - OCR of 8, 9, 10 and 11
  Warszawa, Poland

• Best Utility

  Don Yang - A CRC inserter
  Covina, California, USA

• Best Non-Use of Curses

  Mark Schnitzius - Editor animation
  Singapore

• Best X11 Game

  Daniel Vik - X Windows car racing game
  La Jolla, California, USA

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• Best use of "Precious" Lines

  Anonymous - Rendering of a stroked font
  Singapore

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• Best Abuse of CPP

  Daniel Vik - Calculates prime numbers using only CPP
  La Jolla, California, USA

• Best Calculated Risk

  Brent Burley - A Poker game
  Burbank, California, USA

• Best use of Vision

  Nick Johnson - Curses maze displayer/navigator with only line-of-sight visibility
  Christchurch, New Zealand

• Best Font Engine

  Jeff Newbern - Renders arbitary bitmapped fonts
  Springwood, Queensland, Australia

• Most Functional Output

  Jonathan Hoyle - Curses based polynomial graphing with auto-scale
  Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

• Best use of Light and Spheres

  Anders Gavare - A ray tracer
  Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Best Abuse of Indentation

  Stephen Sykes - Space/tab/linefeed steganography
  Helsinki, Finland

• Best Abuse of the Guidelines

  Anthony Howe - A CGI capable HTTP server
  Cannes, France

• Best Abuse of the Periodic Table

  John Dalbec - Conway's look'n'say sequence split into elements
  Canfield, Ohio, USA

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