(Ovid) RE: YAJAPH

Are you referring to the rotated Mayan numerals? I know what you mean about it being easier to understand. It was my understanding that if a judge could look at an entry and get a feel for what it was doing, it was disqualified.

I read through the winner and saw what was going on. I played around with it and really got a handle on it. While I will admit that I thought it was a beautiful obfuscation, it hardly fell in the "difficult" category. I suspect that it won because of the interesting approach.

Frankly, I'm not a good enough Perl programmer to "get" most obfuscated code (that's the point, huh?), so if I see something I "get", I don't really think it's obfuscated.

Cheers,
Ovid

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RE: YAJAPH by Dominus (Parson) on Nov 11, 2000 at 00:56 UTC
Ovid wrote: >Are you referring to the rotated Mayan numerals? Right, that one. I thought it was a cute idea, but it was basically a gimmick, and the code itself was not obfuscated; it was straightforward. If I had thought of doing that I would have decided it was not interesting enough to submit. I don't mind getting second place, but I do wish that the program that had won had been harder to understand.	[reply]

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RE: YAJAPH
by Dominus (Parson) on Nov 11, 2000 at 00:56 UTC

Are you referring to the rotated Mayan numerals?

Right, that one. I thought it was a cute idea, but it was basically a gimmick, and the code itself was not obfuscated; it was straightforward. If I had thought of doing that I would have decided it was not interesting enough to submit.

I don't mind getting second place, but I do wish that the program that had won had been harder to understand.

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