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- 1987 marked the "The Fourth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
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- The rules for 1987 suggested even more categories than in 1986. Hints
- for what to do and not to do were also given in the rules. For
- example, a simple excessive abuse of /lib/cpp was discouraged unless
- the abuse was unusual. The mailboxes for the contest were moved from
- nsc to amdahl. The practice of posting a preliminary set of rules for
- the next year was started this year.
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- Rules and results were posted to comp.lang.c, comp.unix.wizards with
- an announcement in news.announce.important. Micro/Systems Journal
- published the 1987 winners. Mark Horton included a version of the 1987
- winners in an appendix of his C book. The first announcement of
- winners at the Summer 87 Usenix was helped by a small fly that
- danced all over the foils.
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