Just an idea...

[Rh0ads]

[Sorry if this is in the wrong forum]

I was reading a text online about the 'old school' of programming and I came across a reference to some sort of contest where people make programs, and make the source code as hard to understand as possible or created designs with the source code, and still have it function properly. Would you be interested in doing something like that?

-George

[Mortivan]

Heh! A code obfuscation contest!

I heard rumors that the reason MS won't let anyone see source code, even for ancient products, is that they inadvertantly would win contests like these...



-mort

[mendhak]

You'd like to have a "worst coders" contest??

[Rh0ads]

Don't think of it as a bad coder's contest . The program still had to function. Think of it as exercising the programmer's creativity, be it positive or negative.

-George

[cafeenman]

Where's that "code-out" guy? Never around when a real challenge presents itself

[mendhak]

Originally posted by Rh0ads
[Sorry if this is in the wrong forum]

I was reading a text online about the 'old school' of programming and I came across a reference to some sort of contest where people make programs, and make the source code as hard to understand as possible or created designs with the source code, and still have it function properly. Would you be interested in doing something like that?

-George

Umm... this 'old school' of programming, as much as it sounds like the contraption of a rapper introduced to visual basic programming, is not very popular for a reason.

Albeit, the contest may exist. I believe it would be more difficult to implement that than making a program in the way we normally do. We'd basically be trying to write the whole code in BASIC in a VB environment.

What exactly did you have in mind?

[mendhak]

Originally posted by cafeenman
Where's that "code-out" guy? Never around when a real challenge presents itself

outcode guy. Magiass. I think he's busy with medevh

eww..gross

[SeaHag]

Originally posted by mendhak


outcode guy. Magiass. I think he's busy with medevh

eww..gross

Eww... and they are brothers.... ewwx2 (i dont think that makes
a difference in this case)

[Mortivan]

Not stating an opinion here, but I've got an interesting question for mendhak: If the frog does in fact puff, what kind of profound code can he produce while wasted?



-mort

[cafeenman]

Originally posted by Mortivan
Not stating an opinion here, but I've got an interesting question for mendhak: If the frog does in fact puff, what kind of profound code can he produce while wasted?



-mort

I've seen it, man. It's deep.... really heavy. His code is smokin'!

[jim mcnamara]

Go here:

http://www.ioccc.org/

See of you can read the stuff out there....this is the contest he's talking about.

[tinn cu]

Originally posted by Mortivan
Not stating an opinion here, but I've got an interesting question for mendhak: If the frog does in fact puff, what kind of profound code can he produce while wasted?



-mort

The more profound the "puff", the more profound the code!

[WorkHorse]

I've actually had to do this for business purposes. I wrote VB Scripts that run as macros on an application that performs functions that should only be accessible to high level employees. To be available at all, the Script has to be available to everyone, and the source code read by the macro is in a file that must be easily accessible and available to everyone.

We get people that go into files that they shouldn't be in and mess around. I couldn't do strPassord = "TopSecret" because anyone that opened the easily accessed file out of curiosity would find the password easily. So, I created a bunch of incomprehensible code to check user IDs in convoluted strings and variables for min/max values and max authorized values and so on so that I could easily change a few select values to grant authorization, but trying to work through the messy code to grant access to someone that doesn't knw the code would take a long time.

Encryption by confusion. Not perfect, but a decent deterrent.

[Magiaus]

*** is a codeout is that where two people write an app for the same purpose and the purson with the smallesest fastest code wins or is it the one with the coolest code

who knows


but i think the frog has the right idea puff puff if the code works keep puff'n