Obfuscated Perl Contest: Difference between revisions

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The '''Obfuscated Perl Contest''' was a competition for programmers of [[Perl]] which was held annually between [[1996]] and [[2000]]. 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>

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>.