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Self-reflection

by ar0n (Priest)
on Sep 21, 2000 at 14:42 UTC ( [id://33461]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

There's a great article over on Humorix.

An excerpt:
The Perl Gazette has announced the winners in the First Annual Unobfuscated Perl Code Contest. First place went to Edwin Fuller, who submitted this unobfuscated program: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello world!\n"; "This was definitely a challenging contest," said an ecstatic Edwin Fuller. "I've never written a Perl program before that didn't have hundreds of qw( $ @ % & * | ? / \ ! # ~ ) symbols. I really had to summon all of my programming skills to produce an unobfuscated program."

I especially liked the idea of a use really_goddamn_strict pragma... :)

Via the Amsterdam Perl Mongers mailing list.

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RE: Self-reflection
by moen (Hermit) on Sep 21, 2000 at 16:24 UTC
    Hehe..
    Warning: While There's More Than One Way To Do It, your method at line + 523 is particularly stupid. Please try again
    Funny n greate article, i'll guess i have to send it to my funny_stuff mailing list :o)
    If I had one..
(Guildenstern) RE: Self-reflection
by Guildenstern (Deacon) on Sep 21, 2000 at 22:33 UTC
    I imagine merlyn would appreciate the
    Warning: Programmer attempting to re-invent the wheel at line 2,231. There's a function that does the exact same thing on CPAN -- and it actually works.


    Guildenstern
    Negaterd character class uber alles!

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