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Best of Show

Jari Arkko and Jyrki Holopainen - An X-based spreadsheet program with graphing features!

Best Utility

Bernd Meyer - An image compressor

Best Layout

Don Yang - A program that prints a program that prints a program that prints a program that prints the second program

Best Game

Arch D. Robison - A checkers game

Best Small Program

NATORI Shin - A program whose output depends on the phase of the Moon. Really!

Best use of flags

Glyn Anderson - ASCII to semaphore code convertor

Best Abuse of CPP

Raymond Cheong - A seemingly prime-computing program that does something completely different

Best Abuse of User

Moxen N. Briddlebane - Verbally abuses the user

Worst Abuse of the Rules

David Lowe - A dc-style calculator that uses embedded Perl

Astronomically Obfuscated

James Bonfield - A Galileo's telescope pointed to Jupiter through your X Windows console

Most Specific Output

Fabrice Bellard - Prints the biggest known prime number in base 10

Most Timely Output

Craig Schneiderwent - Reports the time of the day in military style on in "a little old lady" style

Most Portable Output

Thaddaeus Frogley and Gavin Buttimore - A dazzle program that works under MS DOS (DJGPP), MS Windows, X Windows (Simple DirectMedia Layer), or in text mode (curses)

Most Complete Program

Thomas P John - A "Hello, world!\n" program that is the build script and the makefile for itself

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