Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!laidbak!daveb
From: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ugly code
Message-ID: <1274@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 21:26:06 GMT
References: <1311@lll-lcc.aRpA>
Reply-To: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
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In article <1311@lll-lcc.aRpA> booloo@lll-lcc.UUCP (Mark Boolootian) writes:
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>I have heard of a little piece of C code that is particularly ugly (read un-
>readable) that does nothing more than print "hello world" (or something to that
>effect).  The main thing is that the code looks like it wouldn't even compile
>let alone actually produce some result.  ...

I think the following code will fit the bill.
This code (or something very much like it) was
posted as a winner of the Obfuscated C Contest.

/*WhoSaidCIsAnUglyLangauge?*//*WutDuzzitDo?*/
int i;main(){for(;i["]                          Naperville, IL  60540