Winning an IOCCC contest is far from being useless though:-)
IOCCC gang rise up. This is mine: https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2005_persano
I think I have submitted once or twice before that got won, and all other entries were excessively long to be honest. Guess a conciseness is a virtue.
Indeed; quoting from my winning entry [1] that same year:
> This program celebrates the close connection between obfuscation and conciseness, by implementing the most concise language known, Binary Lambda Calculus (BLC).
> The submission implements the universal machine in the most concise manner conceivable.