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.
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.
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?