Smallest code competitions are possibly the stupidest things ever.
I'll have to agree, at least the way these competitions have been done so far. I really don't see the point in making the code ugly as hell and testing the parser's tolerance just to save a few bytes. Many of the submissions in such competitions don't even work in the next version of mirc because they rely on quirks, undocumented things and behaviours prone to change.
That doesnt' mean that smallest code shouldn't be part of the competition at all. Between two scripts that work
equally well (which means they're equally correct, fast and stable), most people would prefer the smaller one. But smallest code being the only objective is pointless. Fastest code competitions would be much more meaningful, for one.
