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Line 1: 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.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.{{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\|~~date~~year=2005\|isbn=0596004567\|isbn13=9780596004569}}</ref> ==Contest== Line 19: == Further reading == * {{cite book\|title=Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture\|author=Jon Orwant\|chapter=Obfuscated Perl\|publisher=O'Reilly\|~~date~~year=2003\|isbn=0596003129\|isbn13=9780596003128\|pages=487–521}} — reprints of the announcements, made in ''The Perl Journal'' by Felix S. Gallo, of the Zeroth, First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth contests ==External links==

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