history of obfuscated C code contests

[Sam Kendall]

I was told of a contest held some years ago, possibly at Interactive
Corp., which was to READ obfuscated C.  The program in question was
carefully constructed, with identifiers like O0O0OO, and was block-
structured in the sense that it was shaped like a rectangular block
with minimal spacing.  The object was to figure out what the program
did by reading the code.

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