C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability
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- The IOCCC 2025 winners have been announced, featuring 23 unique and creative entries.
- Three participants—Yusuke Endoh, Nick Craig-Wood, and Don Yang—each won three awards.
- Notable highlights include Adrian Cable's Subleq emulator, a 366-byte program for software preservation.
- Nick Craig-Wood's winners include a Nintendo Game Boy emulator and a Commodore 64 emulator in FRACTRAN.
- Yusuke Endoh's entries include a Nixie tube simulator and a self-patching program.
- Jonah Uellenberg created a quine Pong game where each compilation outputs updated source code.
- Other winners feature ambient music generation, roguelike games, and Euler's constant calculation in verse.