A column in some old programming magazine— I think it might have been Dr. Dobbs'— had a similar ongoing contest. Some situations could cause a compiler's error-

A column in some old programming magazine— I think it might have been Dr. Dobbs'— had a similar ongoing contest. Some situations could cause a compiler's error-message generator to loop indefinitely, and some compilers would produce a fair amount of error text given a zero-length input, but ignoring these and only counting finite, nontrivial-input cases was still kinda fun.