Just another Perl hacker: Difference between revisions

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[[pl:Just another Perl hacker]]

A [[Perl]] program which prints "Just another Perl hacker," (the comma being [[canonical]] but occasionally omitted)

using extremely [[obfuscated code|obfuscated]] methods, typically ones

based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions,

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<pre>$_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//;</pre>

or from having "Just another Perl hacker," embedded in opaque code:

<pre>$_='987;s/^(d+)/$1-1/e;$1?eval:print"Just another Perl hacker,"';eval</pre>

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This phrase was popularized by [[Randal L. Schwartz]], who created most of the first such programs in the signatures of his postings to the [[Usenet newsgroup]] comp.lang.perl (the predecessor to the modern comp.lang.perl.misc).

== See also: ==
* [[Obfuscated Perl contest]]

== External Links ==

* [http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-japh Cultured Perl: The Elegance of JAPH]

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