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I was surprised at how verbose and commented the code was. Then I read the note saying that Whitney's original code was in `ref/` and the two files in the root were annotated by other kparc members.

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Whitney is an unrealized IOCCC champion.

I know you're joking but people who write C like him would argue it's not obfuscated. It's certainly not intentionally written to be more difficult to read, and those who are practiced in the art often say that it's _easier_ to read.

> Whitney is an unrealized IOCCC champion.

no, that'd be fabrice bellard, who is actually a "realized" ioccc champ.

atw doesn't do obfuscated c. you are led astray.

You know it's in jest, of course. However, he doesn't write C either - and you know that better than us. It's a DSL with its own idioms and quirks that just happens to be in C. Often hearing about "evils" of preprocessor (which I do and don't agree with) I wonder if he ever considered anything else, aside from C, that's also low level. Heck, even asm can be macro'd away.

> atw doesn't do obfuscated c.

He writes as most of us code-golf. Makes you wonder how good his golfing would be if he tries.

Pity that he writes in C; if he wrote in JavaScript, he wouldn't need a minifier.

Sorry, you didn't get him. He does not do it for the sake of making it harder to read, nor he would entertain language like Javascript.

it was a joke. i'm fascinated by his approach.

shakti.com has a suspiciously familiar looking snippet of javascript

was it him?

Ah, thank you for clarifying this. I was confused why it said "by Arthur Whitney" when the contributors do not seem to be Arthur Whitney.

"contributors" is essentially me. what needs to be clarified?

it is by arthur whitney.

anything else?

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