A Competition for Unreadable Code?
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Let's explore the winning submissions of The International Obfuscated C Code contest! Held every year, the IOCCC is a celebration of the syntactical quirks and unique features of C, encouraging submitters to create the most unreadable and unique code possible.
In this video, you'll also learn how to quickly deobfuscate IOCCC submissions using various reverse-engineering tricks, turning the indecipherable syntax into something more human-understandable.
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IOCCC website: www.ioccc.org/
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Timestamps:
00:00 Unique C features
03:05 Demangling a Death Star
06:45 A Reverse Engineer's Secret Weapon
07:59 Crazy Time
09:44 An interesting Grid
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Intro Music Courtesy of Analog Summer:
• Velocity Rush by Analo... 
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I'm a little sad she didn't mention the most coveted prize in the contest, "Best Abuse of the Rules", usually awarded when someone finds a way to so horrifically abuse the rules that they have to be changed going forward.
In 1994, "smr" submitted the smallest self-reproducing program, a program that, when executed, outputs it's own source code.
He achieved this by creating a source file, the only source file in the submission, which was 0 bytes long. Exactly 0 bytes. It was empty.
However, due to clever abuse of the Makefile, the compiler still output an executable. An empty one. What did it do? Nothing. It just instantly exited.
But it's output of absolutely nothing was technically all of his source code.
If Seinfeld was a programmer
@@kxmode not entirely sure how this implicates smr in being weirdly into concerningly young teenager girls, but sure, alright.
do you have a link to this? would love to know what he did in the makefile lol
Her voice is sweeter than honey 🍯.
@@OhhCrapGuy Seinfield was known for episodes about nothing.
I had a coworker who did a novel way of sorting his code... he ordered them by string length, making his code look like a christmas tree... in production
Did it look pretty?
@@mountainsmakemehorny asking the important questions
I approve.
This is so funny, definitely going to mention it to my coworkers. It seems coding that sort of program, is the right order to deliver the joke!
One could say, your coworker did it in a "Noël" way...
"Obfuscated Code"
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Or as my predecessor called it "Production Code".
this cracked me up man good job
the cobol experience
😂
My college professor won this 2 times. He loved talking about it
Do you have the links to his submissions? I would love to see them
@ammdres Me too
i would also boast about this, what an achievement 😂❤
They have the opposite contest for Perl. The goal is to write code that people can actually understand.
It's been running 30 years & still yet to have a winner? 😅
Oooo Burn!
From now onward, I'll end of my main() functions as "piss out".
I dare you.
change it to piss off instead.
Could you put "fuck you", instead?
piss be upon you
Oh, I didn't know I could submit all of my code to the IOCCC. My files look so bad, I am probably a great contender.
Oh boy, you won't imagine! There is ALWAYS someone more crazy...
😂
My code:
}
;0 nruter
{)(niam tni
"my code is self obfuscating"
The aesthetic of this video reminds me of some 2000s computer gaming news etc. program that you randomly stumble upon while watching TV and never find it again.
The intro graphic is from Serial Experiments Lain. The general presentation of the video is also reminiscent of the show's unique style.
It's literally imitating the interface from Mac OS 8, 9.
@@jnharton Bold of you to assume I've ever seen Mac OS 8, 9.
Just write it in C++ - obfuscation enough.
L M A O
yeah, but you become desensitized... after like 10-15 years anyway
Nah rust is way more unreadable than c++
The "peace out;" got me rolling on the floor! XD
#include "cstdio"
#define ever (;;)
int main() {
for ever printf("no. just no.");
}
@@mohammedgoder Rofl 🤣
The creator of Perl, Larry Wall won 2 prizes in the IOCCC. His initials are LW just like Laurie Wired. Coincidence? Who knows!
Did you ever see them in the same room?
I'm genuinely floored by the production quality of these videos and your ability to communicate so effectively
indeed programming is an art
more like a fart
I love the aesthetic of your videos, combined with your clear expertise and knowledge. Thanks for sharing! :]
Yeah, no doubt. Do what you enjoy, for sure. Respect!
I'm really curious how much time the set design took
Glad to see the obfuscated c competition is still going. My favourite was always the love letter exchange.
I’ve been falling out of computer science for a while now cause of college burnout but your videos have relit my computer science flame! Its crazy the difference that good presentation and teaching can make. Keep up the great work 😃
Hey Laurie, your exploration of unreadable code is fascinating! Keep inspiring us with your insights and discoveries. 🚀
I've only watched the first 30 secs of your video and I'm already convinced you deserve more views and subscribers than you already get!! Just love the aesthethics and the vibe!!
Hah, good to see this, I was thinking of the IOCCC whilst watching the Asuka Roasts video the other day...
Im in love, seems like there are so many high quality channels lately!
I LOOOOVE the channel graphics and branding. Awesome!
Amazing video idea, with amazing video quality! Thank you for your work!
I love the vibe of this channel
I'm in love with this competition
What a odd gem to find for a subject I know little about but I'm interested in learning. You made a video of code compelling enough to watch with a nice thematic style of old school computer interfacing.
Looking forward to more. Subscribed :).
How have I never found this channel before. Love the content!!
"This makes C a great candidate for creating some really unreadable code" - Flashbacks of Coldfusion from Adobe
Awesome content as always!
It is interesting how the macro looks so much more readable after you reformatted w/o \. Nice Job Laurie.
Ahh, chongo strikes again!
(Landon Curt Noll, usual username chongo, one of the founders of this, is someone I used to work with. Fun guy to interact with. And he did good by creating this, IMHO.)
Thanks for exploring it a bit and sharing it with new audiences!
Hi Laurie. Wow I love how you popped out from opening a app on the desktop! That’s pretty cool. For whatever reason the theme of you speaking like that in a pc window reminds me of Back to the Future The Ride when I was little. Awesome vibes! Anyhow interesting video. I’m gonna watch it now. Hope you are having a great day.
Love the aesthetics of your videos 😎
That intro was the final straw !!!
I'm subscribing !!!
Thank you for sharing this interesting subject.
I almost lost my mind trying to decipher what in the hell temple of apshai was doing. This was back when I was 15 or 16 and trying to transfer my copy from cassette to disk. I got most of it to disk, but still had to load the fonts and levels from the tape drive.
This is awesome, thanks Laurie! Good thing that one can make C code unreadable, while for few other languages that's the default.
Wow, great video. I learnt something new. I participate in contests avidly and did not know about this.
great video laurie, super interesting topic
I love so much the style of your videoss and also your setup
I worked with a guy who won in one of the IOCCC categories way back in the day.
Finally some respect for bad coding!
No seriously, I've been following this for decades. It's mindblowing.
obsessed with the lain aesthetic, one of my favorite anime of all time and was a catalyst in developing my interest in computer science
love the quality!
these were great examples! if you wish to continue this series and want to take a look at more submissions, I highly recommend Nicholas Carlni's submission for tic tac toe!
a video on obfuscating your code to look cool would also be great :)
super happy to see ioccc here
I've been training for this all my life without knowing!
F-ing wonderful find this channel has been - G bless you Laurie
The Underhanded C Competition is also interesting, though it looks like it is no longer held
I remember having loads of fun with the preprocessor back in the day. I made a header file that turned C extremely verbose and told a friend that was just how it looked like
Love the background of your computer screen!
Great videos! It's so satifying to see you clean up and decipher stuff like this. You should consider ricing your desktop to go with the rest of your video aestetic, on Linux I'm sure there must be some DE that can recreate the kinds of faux-windows you have for your intro/webcam.
Yeah I was wondering why she uses windows
I legit came across live game code that did the following:
#define f*** return
#define sh** ;
It was a cpp file that contained many methods returning pointers to 'this'. Fun times.
P.S. You are a gift to the engineering world Laurie
the gameplay at the end caught me off guard lmao, great vid
She streamed Burnout Paradise last Saturday it has so many hilarious moments, its on her Twitch channel.
Hey Laurie based on your LinkedIn you've only been out of school a few years yet have some insane comp sci knowledge. Aside from internships and your current role how much experience did you have with code/computers before going to college? Did you learn the bulk that you know from college. Just an old head looking to get into programming. Teach us young grasshopper!
After watching One short of yours I was pissed at you, but I wanted to give you a Chance and I watched this video. You've impressed me , and I love the way you speak your voice is calming and it makes enjoyable to watch your videos so now I just have to subscribe 😅❤❤ Greetings from Poland, Laurie 🎉❤
Enjoying the Lain imagery in the intro! :3
I love [ab]using C macros as if they're C++ templates
don't wanna know what kind of hallucinogenic drugs you got to be on to do this type of programming lol
that clock program was insane
I used to enter the obfuscated C competition back in the 1980s. I never came close to winning, but I did my worst, which is all that can be reasonably expected.
There are better tools for unubfusticating the contest entries. "indent", "astyle", and other source code reformatting utilities, "cpp" for doing macro expansion, "m4" and "awk" round out the toolkit.
Around 1989-1990 I wrote a C code obfusticator and posted it to alt.sources. Unfortunately, it didn't handle ANSI C function prototypes and used semantic dirty tricks that are not portable across pre-ANSI compilers and in places conflict with ANSI additions to the C language grammar.
I never realized that doing code in that way could be a thing, but then just looking at that code is driving my hyper efficient coding OCD insane.
Great OS of your choice!
good work on the editing as of late - the transitions between content and animation have gotten much faster and it feels very tight. I really enjoy the production value of your channel ty!
My favorite is still Banks' entry from 1998. Shaped like an airplane and it's a primitive flight sim. Although, not all of the entries will still compile on modern computers. Take for instance some of the older ones that did code injection on PDP's and the like.
Really cool video. The code is madness :)
Your keyboard sounds great !
This video is awesome.
Hey Laurie.. it will be great if you can do "C programming" tutorial. I know there are tons of tutorials out there but your teaching capabilities are extremely good. If you have time plz consider.
Title: unreadable code competition
Me: oh boy sounds like the IOCCC
fantastic video theming this is so cool
you make me love C, that's impossible 😂😂
Very cool. Reminds me of figuring out what malware does, saw Low Level Learning do some of that cybersecurity challenge stuff. Also the circle code was quite aesthetic. I'd guess nvim to be one of the easier text editors to start fixing the visual look of the code and the #defines, otherwise it'd feel like a bit of a mess. The nvim plugins that follow common style for the language also helping out. These are probably the best ways to make your coworkers mad or get fired.
Nice new look😁
That's cool snake, very nice 👍
this has to be the most insane glow up i've ever seen
I love SkiFree, and Chip's Challenge. all of the Microsoft games pack games were great
I like how your office is a giant radiation oven
Do you think you can code a perceptron using assembly or even a old language like basic or turbo Pascal ?
I love your channel :)
If you want a medal from your coworkers for best code ever just pack every function and data object in one giant void array and cast it in the program as needed.
There is a time for this when you change hardware configs at runtime with full bandwidth read/writes but other than that ...
Can you do an asuka rates your obfuscated code competition
based
the very begining while meeting this code: ctrl + A + K & ctrl + A + F
As someone new to C "This is starting to look like a real C program" made me laugh and then cry.
6:10 idk if that's a 'fix', looks like it's a directive only meant to run on Win32 devices (from the ifdef), and it patches main to work on windows properly
When will we connect to the wired? You're keeping me in suspense.
This channel's became one of my favorites after 2 videos. I'd pay for this content.
Laurie you are a god!!! :)
There are no perl obfuscated code competitions because that'd be stating the obvious
In the industry thats called job security smh
Actually there was an obfuscated perl contest.
@@stighemmer but nobody could find it
lmao, that last one looks like the Fallout 3 hacking screen
People out there are really insane 😮
I liked the pixel art Ein.
Best cs channel
there is also the underhanded c contest
You have very creative intros :D
You can sort of skip all of this by printing the preprocessor output to the console.
If you want to see really unreadable code check out mk64 decomp.
the style of your videos id so fucking cool!!
Laurie, where do you get that windows xp era theme from???
But what if you debugged it 🤔 would it get confused what line to highlight?
Pretty cool to see Yandex in your list!
My code is already unreadable enough, I might keep an eye and try out for the next edition so at least I make something out of it
You look like Daphne in This Video, Cool Video!