SarahM++ for a fun obfuscation! You had me going in circles for a few minutes... I felt like I was chasing my tail!

Deobfuscation follows:

First we strip out all the comments being careful to remove *only* the comments. That leaves us with: sub p () { use constant P=>' )'; use constant Q=>'* '; substr(P,1,1); } sub q () { eval join '', split /./, s//rxlgcdjqfvbpsohduwyvcmbjdxopd/ & map { tr/[a..z]/[z..a]/ . P | Q } split //; } $, = p; print q; #Just Another Perl Hacktress ;^P [download] That last line fooled you didn't it? The q subroutine is only there to confuse you and is not used at all. So we strip it out leaving us with: sub p () { use constant P=>' )'; use constant Q=>'* '; substr(P,1,1); } $, = p; print q; #Just Another Perl Hacktress ;^P [download] "What is she up to?", you ask? $, (output field seperator) is set to the return value of the p subroutine (a space) but the real purpose of the p subroutine is to set the value of the P constant to the string ' )'. $, is not even used so let's strip it down again. use constant P => ' )'; print q; #Just Another Perl Hacktress ;^P [download] This can be rewritten as:  print ' #Just Another Perl Hacktress '^' )' A space XORed with a space yields a null (\000). A number sign (#) XORed with a ) yields a newline (\n). The output is '\000\nJust Another Perl Hacktress '.

Fixed typo. Thanks LAI!