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As far as decompling Java, have you ever tried doing it? It's valid Java sourcecode, most of the time, but is far from easy to use. Perl's much more introspective, however, and the bytecode is closer to the language. Most importantly, you don't loose the names of variables, since they're still relevant at runtime in perl.

I tried. There are exist a number of decomplilers for Java and most of them produce quite clear source code.

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