Matt Giwer <mgi### [at] giwersworldorg> wrote:
: 	And that is a good thing? To post something as a sig that only
: those familar with obscure legal but unprofession C code can read
: if they want to waste the time? 

: 	Please explain why and exercise in obscurity is a good thing. 

: 	Yes, you are very clever. Yes you are a horrible example of the
: art of programming. 

  First of all, you should read http://www.ioccc.org/. I quote:

>     Goals of the Contest
>
>     To write the most Obscure/Obfuscated C program under the rules below. 
>     To show the importance of programming style, in an ironic way. 
>     To stress C compilers with unusual code. 
>     To illustrate some of the subtleties of the C language. 
>     To provide a safe forum for poor C code. :-) 


  Signatures are not part of a contest, but you should get an idea about
what's the mentality behind obfuscated C (or any other programming language).
  Signatures usually contain information about the sender, but often they
also have some interesting things, like quotes, url's, jokes, etc.
  My signature is intended to be a kind of riddle (in the context of
obfuscated C). Often someone gets curious about what does it do and then
tries to compile and run it and gets surprised. Sometimes these people
write to me asking me how is it done. They feel the joy of discovering
something unexpected.
  The signature seldom offends or annoys anyone. It's just 2 lines long,
it's always located at the very end of the text and it doesn't add anything
else to the article. That is, it doesn't disturb the reading of the article.
Everyone can (or at least should) see that it's just a signature.

  And besides, why do you whine about the _contents_ of my signature? I
have never said anything about the contents of your signature. It's only
the way you send it which is annoying. There should be absolutely no reason
to blame anyone for the contents of his/her signature.
  However, if I use a gif as my signature and send it uuencoded or
mime-encoded, that's not good anymore.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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