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You've inspired a reverse golf challenge, ignore all simple, portable solutions, what's the most convoluted way to achieve the goal :)

Interesting. As a keen student of the lighter side of programming culture, I'm unsure if reverse golf warrants a new distinct category, or if it's just a sub-category of Obfu. Opinions welcome.

Historically, I believe Golf precedes Obfu because John McCarthy grad students played golf ("program bumming") in machine language on an IBM 704 computer in 1959 (APL golf was also popular in the 1960s) ... while the earliest reference to Obfu I'm aware of is 1972, when Messrs Woods and Lyon implemented INTERCAL on an IBM 360. The first International Obfuscated C Code Contest came much later, in 1984 (I see Larry Wall won this contest twice!).

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Updated: Noted that Larry Wall won International Obfuscated C contest twice. Added link to Rube Goldberg machine.

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In reply to Re^4: Module to extract text from HTML (Reverse Golf) by eyepopslikeamosquito
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