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The '''Obfuscated Perl Contest''' was a competition for programmers of [[Perl]] which was held annually between 1996 and 2000. Entrants to the competition aim to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code" <ref>[http://www.tpj.com/documents/s=1286/sam03020012/ Perl Journal link] You may need to subscribe to the Perl Journal to be able to view this link, which is the source of the quote given.</ref>. It was run by ''The Perl Journal'' and took its name from [[The International Obfuscated C Code Contest]].<ref>{{cite book|pages=256|title=Advanced Perl Programming|author=Simon Cozens|publisher=O'Reilly|date=2005|isbn=0596004567|isbn13=9780596004569}}</ref>
==Contest==
The entries are judged on aesthetics, output and incomprehensibility. One entrant per year will gain the ''Best of Show'' award.▼
Entrants are advised to try and demonstrate a range of Perl knowledge, whilst being humorous, surprising and deceitful. Code which purposefully crashes the judges' machines is not recommended.▼
The competition is typically divided into four categories, which, in the most recent contest,{{when}} included:
* Create a diversion (limit of 2048 bytes if using Perl/Tk, 512 bytes otherwise)
* World Wide Wasteland (limit of 512 bytes)
* Inner Beauty (limit of 512 bytes)
* Best ''The Perl Journal'' (code which generates the words ''The Perl Journal'', limit of 256 bytes)
▲The entries are judged on aesthetics, output and incomprehensibility. One entrant per year will gain the ''Best of Show'' award.
▲Entrants are advised to try and demonstrate a range of Perl knowledge, whilst being humorous, surprising and deceitful. Code which purposefully crashes the judges' machines is not recommended.
==References==
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