From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-02-24T00:26:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How about "pretty" and "pretty unreadable"?
> > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/124391
> 
> Don't tell me you can't read base64! :P
> 
> (It may be unreadable, but it isn't really obfuscated...)
> 
> > I'm still impressed by that one (obviously)
> 
> Well, thank you.

I agree, you did some really clever work, including a generator
script, but in the end it's base64 and the resulting Ruby code is very
readable.

I've seen people going around with a simple base64 encode/decode Ruby
line in their .signatures.  It's just not impressive, people!  :-)

Cheers,
Navin.