Subject: Obfuscated Perl Contest Victors
From: [email-masked] (Jon Orwant)
Date: 30 Sep 1997 13:30:07 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

The 1st Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest, sponsored by The Perl Journal,
was a smashing success.  The judging committee has thrown in the
towel, and so the results are in.  The full writeup (including code)
is on the TPJ web site, http://tpj.com, but here are the winners:

                            MOST POWERFUL

1st place: Daniel Rinehart, self-uncompressing square root finder 
			    and custom bignum library

2nd place: Aaron Sherman, Perl-enabled spreadsheet

3rd place: Kalai Kandasamy, orbital fractal pixmap generator

                            MOST CREATIVE

1st place: Stephen McCamant, an 8-bit Apple ][-like virtual machine which 
			     runs opcodes that pretend to calculate pi

2nd place: Robert Klep, a curses-based graphics hack that rotates 
			the word 'Perl'

3rd place: David Powell, a curses-based real-time skiing game

                        BEST "THE PERL JOURNAL"

1st place: Joe Futrelle, a gorgeously formatted entry using the UNIX 
			 chargen service

2nd place: Jim Lawless, a self-uncompressing six-instruction virtual
		   	machine

3rd place: Frank Sheiness, a very alarming obfuscation 

                         BEST YEAR 2000 ERROR

First Place: Stephen McCamant

BEST OF SHOW: Stephen McCamant, for his Apple ][-like virtual machine 
in seven lines of Perl.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all who entered!
The $100 cash prizes and trophies for the first place winners 
will be mailed shortly.

Special thanks to Felix "Robotron Poser" Gallo for organizing the contest.

-Jon

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Jon Orwant            http://tpj.com
Editor & Publisher, The Perl Journal