I just came across this gem of a paper with the promising title 93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs. If you're looking for a good weekend read for the sunday morning movement, look no further.

Money Quote:
Figure 6 represents the string “gggijgziifiiffif”, which by pure coincidence happens to accurately represent the authors’ verbal reaction upon learning that “unquoted strings” were a feature intentionally included in the Perl language.


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Re: Iis it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?
by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 29, 2019 at 21:54 UTC
    April 1 Article on Perl

    Also, as I noted elsewhere: they didn't use strict.

    map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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      Oh, sorry. I should have searched I guess.


      holli

      You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.
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