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The quintessential example is donut.c. I was amazed when I first came across it.

https://www.a1k0n.net/2006/09/15/obfuscated-c-donut.html

This was my first attempt at obfuscated C and I feel it's pretty amateurish

I love feelings of inadequacy at 11:07pm on a Sunday.

Here's the judges' remarks and author commentary on the second edition of this from the 2006 results: https://www.ioccc.org/2006/sloane/index.html

Thanks, this makes me happy.

Absolute legend

it’s worked on every system I’ve tried so far though

Still my favorite part of the whole thing. Classic moment of “who among us hasn’t doesn’t this?” lol

Always fun to see this pop up years later. (Damn, 20 years now)

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