Worlds shortest self replicating program.

Capt'n Midnight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Code_Contest

Worst abuse of the rules. In several years, an entry was submitted that was so patently absurd that it required a new definition of some of the rules for the next year. This, of course, is a high honor. An example would be the world's shortest self-reproducing program. The entry was a program zero bytes in length, that if run, printed zero bytes to the screen (this requires some creative use of the makefile to get it right).

http://www.de.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint

other winners
http://www.de.ioccc.org/years.html

Cake Fiend

How about a contest for obfuscated brainf*ck code? :eek:

Capt'n Midnight

How about obfuscated whitespace instead ?

Zombrex

In the future, the contest rules will specify a minimum size
that is one character larger than this entry, forever eliminating
this sort of program from contest. After all, how many variations
can one make on this entry? :-)

Reminds me of the time someone recorded "silence" and then tried to sue someone else for copy-right infringment when they recorded their own version of "silence"

Capt'n Midnight

http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/cyberia-l/msg41561.html

Mike Batt was accused of plagiarism by Edition Peters, publishers of the late
Cage's work, after he put a track called "A Minute's Silence" on his latest
album "Classical Graffiti," performed by pop-classics group The Planets. The
piece was credited it to Batt/Cage.

Cage's ground-breaking silent composition, 4'33," was first performed half a
century ago. The piano piece, divided into three movements, consists entirely
of silent notes and takes four minutes 33 seconds to perform.