What is Obfuscation

An intellectual pursuit where you try to prove yourself cleverer than everyone else by writing completely incomprehensible code that still actually works. Bonus points for getting it to run with strict and warnings.

why and where is it needed

It is not *needed* although it has potential job security benefits ;-) Besides that it can be fun to write/decipher and certainly promotes a deep understanding of Perl

and what does it take to create/implement Obfuscation.

It takes 3 things. 1) imagination; 2) a fairly deep knowledge of the more arcane aspects of Perl; 3) far too much free time

Monks Please do explain with coded examples.

See my sig (you can run it and it will print "tachyon") or Obfuscation or some of the Best Nodes.....

History

As far as I can discern we owe a debt of gratitude to Randal Schwartz aka merlyn you started the craze and coined the infamous 'just another Perl hacker,' moniker which so many obfus eventually generate.

cheers

tachyon

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