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Code Explainer
Interesting snippets of code taken apart for your viewing pleasure.
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Let the music play
Good news for all International Obfuscated C Code Contest fans here s another winning piece from 2013 written by Yusuke Endoh, who is no stranger to the Contest. It is dubbed the Most Tweetable 1-Liner, because is small enough to Continue reading
Dots and Dashes
Perl is (in)famous for the ability to write programs that look like line noise, and today I will take apart this beautiful piece of code. Written by tybalt89, it can decode sequences of dots and dashes to Latin letters in Continue reading
Anatomy of the heart
This heart-shaped program is written in the language of choice for producing unreadable and obfuscated code: Perl 5. It also serves an unusual purpose of a proposal. Who wrote the code? The code was published on PerlMonks in 2004 by Continue reading
Have fun with Unix
Just one line of code, but lots of confusion. What does this program do? Who wrote this code? The code won the Best One-Liner prize at the IOCCC in 1984. It was written by David Korn, who is also the Continue reading
Some are more equal than others
And to avoid the tedious repetition of these words: is equal to: I will set as I do often in work use, a pair of parallels, or Gemowe lines of one length, thus: =, because no 2 things, can be Continue reading
How to dismantle a compiler bomb
You have heard of zip bombs (a tiny ZIP file that decompresses to multiple gigabytes) and XML bombs (small XML file abusing the entities to consume lots of memory), and now there is a compiler bomb to follow suit. The Continue reading
Namaste India
This obfuscated piece of C code prints the map of India to the standard output. Who wrote this code? The author is unknown. I have found the code on Quora while searching the web for interesting code snippets. (If you Continue reading
Regex prime checker
This Java snippet uses a regular expression for something way different than they were designed for: a primality check. Who is the author? After some digging I found out that the original author is Abigail and the code was originally Continue reading