Why I hate c

[meatmanek]

If you really want to see some obfuscated C code, there's actually a contest for it. http://www.ioccc.org/ - The International Obfuscated C Code Contest.

Winning entries can be found at http://www1.us.ioccc.org/years.html

If you want a language that is very easy to program in and makes sense, check out Ruby at http://www.ruby-lang.org
For example, to run a command 3 times in C, you would do this:

for (int i=3; i<=0; i--) {
command();
}

In Ruby, it would look something like this:

3.times { command }

Ruby is also loosely-typed, meaning you don't have to worry about the size of the variable that's holding your data, the interpreter will determine that for you.

Note that you can't use Ruby on the robot, this is just for hobbyist programmers.

[gnormhurst]

Thanks for that pointer to IOCCC -- I think that's where that bit of code came from, many years ago.

And now I'm reminded of another language, "whitespace,", wherein all code is composed entirely of three characters: space, newline, and tab.

Here's a example bit of code:

This is a comment. 
   	

   	    		
 
 	
 	   	 	 
	
     	
	    
    	 		
	  	
	  	   	 	

 
 	    		

   	   	 	
 





   		    	 		  	   		  	  
	   
	

   			 			 			  	  		 	  	 			 	   		  	 	
 
 			 
 
	  			 			 			  	  		 	  	 			 	   		  	 	 	 					 		  	 	 		 			  		  	  
	
     	
	   
 
 			 			 			  	  		 	  	 			 	   		  	 	

   			 			 			  	  		 	  	 			 	   		  	 	 	 					 		  	 	 		 			  		  	  
 

 


	

   			  	  		  	 	 		    	 		  	  
 
  
 	
	 			 
    	 	 
	  	
	  			  	  		  	 	 		    	 		  	   	 					 		  	 	 		 			  		  	  
 

   	
	   
 
 			  	  		  	 	 		    	 		  	  

   			  	  		  	 	 		    	 		  	   	 					 		  	 	 		 			  		  	  
 

   	
	       
		 
	

   		 			  		  	 	 			 			 		 		   		 	  	 		 			  		  	 	
   	 	 
   		 	
	
  	
  
	


End of code example.

Maybe next year FIRST will specify whitespace as the language we use.

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by gnormhurst

Thanks for that pointer to IOCCC -- I think that's where that bit of code came from, many years ago.

And now I'm reminded of another language, "whitespace,", wherein all code is composed entirely of three characters: space, newline, and tab.

Here's a example bit of code:

...

Maybe next year FIRST will specify whitespace as the language we use.

**** the guy who makes that decission.

By the way, what does your program do?

[deltacoder1020]

Originally Posted by gnormhurst

Thanks for that pointer to IOCCC -- I think that's where that bit of code came from, many years ago.

best bit of IOCCC code ever... only runs on certain machines, though:

short main[] = {
	277, 04735, -4129, 25, 0, 477, 1019, 0xbef, 0, 12800,
	-113, 21119, 0x52d7, -1006, -7151, 0, 0x4bc, 020004,
	14880, 10541, 2056, 04010, 4548, 3044, -6716, 0x9,
	4407, 6, 5568, 1, -30460, 0, 0x9, 5570, 512, -30419,
	0x7e82, 0760, 6, 0, 4, 02400, 15, 0, 4, 1280, 4, 0,
	4, 0, 0, 0, 0x8, 0, 4, 0, ',', 0, 12, 0, 4, 0, '#',
	0, 020, 0, 4, 0, 30, 0, 026, 0, 0x6176, 120, 25712,
	'p', 072163, 'r', 29303, 29801, 'e'
};

see the hint file here
this is from the first IOCCC competition in 1984