This isn't highly obfuscated, in fact you should be able to work it out in a couple seconds pretty easily. The comments are amusing =)

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

;# This is a pail of painful perl.  It includes things that cannot be,
;# and wierdness that doesn't add up.  It *will* run...

;# First they declare the $, can you do that?
local $;

;# Did you know you can assign a sub to a $?
$ *= sub {$ -= rand 2000000};
$ .= sub {$ --=(int $-)/2};

;# Can even do bit operations against $!
$ |= sub {qw/higher/};
$ ^= sub {qw/lower/};

;# How about a multiplication by a dereferenced anonymous array?
;#   (that has a concatenation with another deref'd anon array!)
;# And what's this about $ being a subroutine?
$ * ->(
       $(), $ .->($)
      );

;# This is where is gets bizarre: worthless markers with no gotos,
;# joining something that's not an array; you're on your own.
;# (i put a question mark next to the ones i didn't understand...)
{
   print '$ ' and chomp( $ == <STDIN> );
   $ =<=> $                                     -?
   print join '', $ =< $                        -?
   $ | ->($)
   ):     $ ^ ->()
   ,"\n": last;
   redo;
}

;# FINALLY!   A normal statement!
print "correct.\n";

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enjoy,
jynx

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