Very nice! And very original! So simple, and yet, so confusing!

Let's see if I can dissect it a bit:
$a=q-q=a$

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The first line declares $a as a variable, and assigns it a string, using the q operator with "-" as a delimiter. The following string: 
q=a$

Cal Henderson
Techincal Director
Emap Digital New Projects

e: cal.henderson@emap.com
t: 020 7868 7543
m: 07899 835995

no unsolicted commercial email, ok!

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is what is used as the pool of letters to write the program's output, "just another Perl hacker".

Then you've got the closing "-" delimiter, followed by the ";" closing out that statement. The next bit is the fun part: 
$b=59;
while('64aa22632f626f63913d8f3199583a6571c82d227fe107420' =~ /(..)/g)
{
  $b += -100 + hex $1;
  print((split(//,$a))[$b]);
}

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$b is initialized with the value 59, and the while statement executes a regex search on the string 64aa22632f626f63913d8f3199583a6571c82d227fe107420 which basically grabs every two characters in that string, and stores them to the special variable $1.

Inside the for loop, the value of $b is augmented using the following logic: So, from the start, $b==59, the regex grabs the hexadecimal number "64", converts it to 100 in decimal, subtracts 100 from it, and adds the value to $b, resulting in the value 59.

The next bit is interesting. The split operator is called on the big string contained in $a, splitting it by '', thus creating a big array composed of each individual character in the string, including spaces. [$b] is appended after the parenthesized split statement, thus turning the current value of $b into an array index, plucking the letter in that position out of the temporary array created by the split statement, and sending it to the print statement.

Perhaps I over analyzed this one, but I had fun taking it apart and looking at it's components!

++iamcal!

higle

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