On 07/15/2016 02:23 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> The International Obfuscated C Code Contest, IOCCC was started by the
> "masters" and "pioneers" in C. This is a "competition" for those who
> take pride in compressing code to the point of making it practically
> unreadable.
>
> The following is a program submitted to IOCCC:
> http://www.ioccc.org/2015/dogon/prog.c
>
>
> At first, I was tempted to follow the path of writing obfuscated code,
> but thinking about it, with todays huge computers, it simple doesn't
> make sense to write difficult to read code. In the past there was an
> advantage of writing such code that saved on code size as RAM size was
> only a few kilobytes but definitely not today.
>
> Here on this mailing list, I am noticing that being committed to write
> legible code, is interpreted as an inherent lack of coding ability. In
> my case, irrespective of the attacks by some, and the fact that when I
> submitted functional code nobody commented about it, indicates that
> those who are attacking are only interested in making disguised
> personal attacks to dissuade me from helping in the project. The
> answer to these people is: I will continue to move on irrespective of
> your attacks.
>

IIRC, the person on this list who mentioned IOCCC said that it was a bad
idea if you were a professional programmer. Did you miss that part?

I think you have a persecution/victim complex and a lack of attention to
detail.

You should be thankful for the people on this list willing to help you
and guide you. Read "How to Become a Hacker." It might help you
understand the world you are interacting with. Why are you even posting
C code here. Go post your code on a site dedicated to C. I think you
will have much more fun and progress.

Peace,

Simon