Regarding : Obfuscation in a Nutshell?

bagelesque has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Now is there is obviously a technique per se to obfuscating PERL but it is all just pertaining to knowing the language really well or is it more about using substition/explode and such forth? Is there any all around useful documentation concerning PERL obfuscation? Will I never stop asking these silly questions? :) I beseech thee for thy help. :)

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Re: Regarding : Obfuscation in a Nutshell? by seanbo (Chaplain) on Nov 30, 2001 at 20:00 UTC
Check the Tutorials section. You will find an article, Writing highly obfuscated code in Perl, by marko. That is a good place to start. perl -e 'print reverse qw/o b n a e s/;'	[reply]
Re: Regarding : Obfuscation in a Nutshell? by Jazz (Curate) on Dec 01, 2001 at 06:32 UTC
Abigail's yapc19100 slide presentation may be an interesting read. It has some amusing examples and an inspiring "Making a Japh" section.	[reply]
Re: Regarding : Obfuscation in a Nutshell? by blakem (Monsignor) on Nov 30, 2001 at 13:13 UTC
I don't know if there really is much of a handbook for obfu... Since the whole point is to confuse the reader, trying to pick apart well-done obfu is a bad place to start. I'd recommend playing a few rounds of golf, since golf and obfu are highly related pasttimes.... Care to play a round? -Blake	[reply]