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. Entrants to the competition aimed to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code".<ref>[http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/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.</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=05960045670-596-00456-7|isbn13=9780596004569}}</ref>

==Contest==

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== Further reading ==

* {{cite book|title=Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture|author=Jon Orwant|chapter=Obfuscated Perl|publisher=O'Reilly|year=2003|isbn=05960031290-596-00312-9|isbn13=9780596003128|pages=487&ndash;521}} &mdash; reprints of the announcements, made in ''The Perl Journal'' by Felix S. Gallo, of the Zeroth, First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth contests

==External links==