Xref: utzoo comp.sources.wanted:14648 alt.sources.d:1270 rec.games.misc:13020 rec.games.programmer:2771 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.d,rec.games.misc,rec.games.programmer Subject: Re: Maze generation Message-ID: <1990Dec31.004003.300@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 31 Dec 90 00:40:03 GMT References: <1990Dec15.093542.2725@pegasus.com>> <1990Dec30.190316.18509@digibd.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 27 merlyn@digibd.com (Brian Westley (Merlyn LeRoy)) writes: >>> BTW, if I was forced to guess it's origins it "looks" like an entry in >>> the obfuscated code contest that someone holds each year. >>I believe that it is from the 1989 contest. >Didn't win, though. (I'd've picked it over some of the others). >For the curious, it's by John Tromp (tromp@piring.cwi.nl) >(He won for his Tetris program in 1990) >Didn't notice that the maze layout also spelled "maze" Yeah, that's fairly subtle; needs squinting. I wonder if it would have won if the judges had picked up on it. My all time favorite IOCCC entry was the one that was in the shape of a locomotive. >Merlyn LeRoy >4-time IOCCC winner Was this from code deliberately designed to win, or just day to day stuff of yours in some big project that your coworkers sent in in your name? ;-) Kent, the man from xanth.