not as confusing as it could be, but still a little difficult to guess what's going on 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$_="Just another Perl hacker";

my@x=(65,14,17,31,17,17,74,31,4,4,4,24,85,17,17,17,
17,14,83,15,16,14,1,30,84,31,4,4,4,4,78,17,25,21,19
,17,79,14,17,17,17,14,72,17,17,31,17,17,69,31,16,30
,16,31,82,30,17,30,18,17,80,30,17,30,16,16,76,16,16
,16,16,31,67,14,17,16,17,14,75,17,18,28,18,17);my%x
;while (my$x=shift@x) {$x{chr($x)}=[shift@x,shift@x,
shift @x,shift @x,shift @x];}sub c{my @e=split//,uc(
shift);my@ee;for(@e){my@ret=&a($_);$ee[$_].=$ret[$_]
for 0..4;}print join("\n",@ee)."\n\n";}sub a{my@d;my
($e)=@_;push@d,b($e,$_)for(@{$x{$e}});return@d;} sub
b{my($f,$e,$d)=@_;for(0..4){if($e>(2**(4- $_))-1){$e
-=(2**(4-$_));$d.=$f;}else{$d.=' ';}};return$d.' ';}
c($_)for split/\s/;

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