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submitted 3 months ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Perl is a write-only language.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I used to love it, it could look a lot like c, or you could do crap like

$_=<<'';y;\r\n;;d;$_=pack'b*',$_;$_=eval;$@&&die$@;$_

Admittedly, they're trying to obfuscate it, but even unpacking it a bit, it looks alien.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Yes! That was the other thing I wanted to include, but I couldn't remember the name or search for it, so I wrote it off as a fever dream!