Well, this is my second attempt at obfuscation, and I hope I have shown improvement. From the advice of a monk who /msg'ed me (I have forgotten who it was, but thank you whomever it was), I used many of perl's special variables. Because of that, this may not be very portable, it works on my solaris though. If it doesn't work, try pasting this to the top of it:
$a="1 1"; $b="1 1"; *(=*a; *)=*b;
That even works on my machine running dos. Well, without further ado...
eval substr($~,substr($),$[,++$.),substr($(,$^F,$.)); sub T { print chr(sprintf('%x',($=+$=-(eval join(pack('c',hex (substr($),$[,$.)+$(.chr hex$=+2)),split($",$(),split($",$))))))); $~=~m;((?<=O).);&&print lc$1;($_)=$^=~m;(.);;$_=lc;print$_++.$_.$"; $_ = 'emazing is the time it takes to travel to the moon, eons and ions, well, that is just hyperbole.that is the total amount of time that I want to spend programming.once, a satolite oribitted our moon over one hundorate times, over and over again, and that is no exagoration, no, not at all.while nasa wants to win government money, working hard is a good idea.but it may not get the money.that is the reason that I want to help get the money, but that is not to be.';eval pack('c5',36,++$=,$=,52,55); @;=map{10*(10+(eval pack('c5',eval$..$^F.$.,$=,ord( substr$_,$[,$.),$=,$=))/10)}/([^\.]+)./g;unshift@;,97; print chr for@;;print$";$_ = '227065726C206861636B6572242F22'; print eval pack('c15',map{hex}/(..)/g);}
Tachyon, I have no doubt you can easily decode this; I await your spoiler.

The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
Stephen Rawls

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Re: My second JAPH
by tachyon (Chancellor) on May 27, 2001 at 14:52 UTC
    Hi Steve, or is it still Stephen? ;-) This is much better although I see you are still getting slack at the end! I bet that the last couple of lines are a hex decode that print 'perl hacker' with a couple of extra chars thrown in that eval to '', ' ' or \n at a guess

    No doubt I won't be able to resist a dissassembly when I have some time but hell serious work beckons.

    Cheers

    tachyon

    PS Obfuscation by expandation is a Microsoft thing, tres un Perl. Using your best French accent say: "Moi, non plus bloatware presente Ctrl+Alt+Del"