From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-02-23T22:02:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> writes:

> Todd Nathan wrote:
>> it is with great pleasure to annouce the opening of 2005 IORCC.
>
> 1st price: "Advanced Obfuscation: Perl for Ruby Programmers"
> 2nd price: "More Awkward Obfuscation: AWK for Ruby Programmers"
> 3rd price: "Obfuscation by Parenthesis: Lisp for Ruby Programmers"
> 4th price: "How to shoot yourself in the foot"
>
> An ORCC doesn't seem to be a good idea. I already hear them saying "See
> this? They keep on saying that Ruby code is much cleaner than Perl code.
> Don't believe their lies."

I wonder how the perl community reacted on books like "Object-oriented
Perl" by Conway... :P

Seriously, a deobfuscation contest of the winners is planned, too.

> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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