And they lived happily ever after. The End. What's this? You say something's still not clear about this whole C programming language thing? Well, to be quite honest, I'm not even sure what the above code does. It's a snippet from one of the entires in the 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest 1, a wonderful competition wherein the entrants attempt to write the most unreadable C code possible, with often surprising results. The bad news is that if you're a beginner in this whole thing, all C code you see looks obfuscated! The good news is, it's not going to.