According to io9, a programming contest celebrates the world's most deliberately unreadable code. The competition honors creators of intentionally bizarre and convoluted programs—the kind that look like they were written by a malfunctioning algorithm. While the industry prizes clean, maintainable code, this contest takes the opposite path, rewarding audacity and creative obscurity in code that baffles everyone who reads it.

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