Annual Obfuscated Ada Code Contest

[wpl@burdvax.UUCP (William P Loftus)]

        Those of you who follow the net.lang.c or net.unix-wizards
newgroups, might know the time is nearing for the annual Obfuscated
C Code Contest, already in its third year.

        Well, anouncing the annual

                **Obfuscated Ada Code Contest**!

        With validated Ada compilers proliferating though industry
like wildfire, the craze has started to become one of the few real
'Ada hackers'. We're talking REAL men here.

        For those of you who aren't familiar with the Obfuscated
C Code Contest, the idea is to create the most visually disgusting
and semantically confusing program as possible.  One thing I can say
about those C guys is that they sure can write ugly programs! As fun as
it is, and it is fun, it's still pretty much an exercise in lexical
creativity. Any reasonably good C pretty printer spoils the whole thing.

        Because Ada is a REAL lanague, we would certainly need
a REAL contest to sharpen our skills on.


                           The Rules

        1) The program should compile at least on MOST validated
           Ada compilers.

        2) People should submit a listing of their program (showing that
           is compiles) and the output (if any).

        3) One submition per person.

        4) The contest starts NOW and ends May 30th 1986.

                           The Judges

        1) William Loftus, SDC  ...!burdvax!wpl
        2) Eric Marshall, SDC   ...!burdvax!eric


Mail programs (listing and output) to burdvax!wpl.


     
                        The REAL men at SDC:

                                William Loftus & Eric Marshall


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The above should not be thought of at all (not even a little bit) as a
reflection of the views, attitudes, or anything else of SDC. In fact
these ideas are really the wooden elephant that stands on my desk!