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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 aimed to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code".<ref>[http://www.tpjfoo.combe/documentsdocs/s=1286tpj/sam03020012issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0012.html 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.{{Dead link|date=September 2009}}</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|year=2005|isbn=0596004567|isbn13=9780596004569}}</ref>

==Contest==