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In 1988, a fascinating little piece of code hits the limelight. That year, one of the winners of the annual International Obfuscated C Code Contest features a program that writes out to the terminal console the text of an eighteenth-century poem titled “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.
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Robillard, M.P. (2019). Introduction. In: Introduction to Software Design with Java. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24094-3_1
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