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Thank you Barry Kerchival, My C programming teacher for sharing obfuscated code, and showing us utter abuse of the C pre-processor. "This does not do what you t

Thank you Barry Kerchival, My C programming teacher for sharing obfuscated code, and showing us utter abuse of the C pre-processor. "This does not do what you think it does." "Recalcitrant code."

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"You could hide a semi truck in 200 lines of C"
- ForOldHack 1y ago
  At the beginning of the semester, we had a question about struct... Armed with the error code,she showed it to Barry. He looked at it, sat down at her machine, and typed a few lines. Compiled it, put the disks for the compiler back in the folder, put the folder and the manual in the box and threw it against the wall above the garbage can, and it landed for a two-pointer. "We will have a new compiler on Monday." Thus ended the use of Lattus-C, and Microsoft-C for a least 4 years. We went with Manx-C, and were able to complete all the assignments for that semester. He saved the best for later. "Read 'on trusting trust'" which blew all out minds. You can hide whole universes inside of a C compiler.