I'd say the idea is not too complicated -- for every + you increase the ascii code, for every - you decrease it. In between, at every non-space character, you print the character corresponding to it. Or something like that, fact is it took me about 2 minutes to figure this out, and I think it's because the main body of the program is obvious (the for through each character loop).

How about the following suggestions to `improving the non-readability of your code':
  1. Use special Perl variables ($/ $= $,)
  2. Avoid overusing obvious keywords (eval, split), go for regexps if possible
  3. When using regexps, feel free to use characters other than forward slashes
  4. When quoting strings, feel free to use other quoting techniques (qq[])
I made a few superficial changes based on what I said, but I don't have Perl here, so I'll hope you at least get the idea if it doesn't run. Oh and I don't mean to offend if you already knew these things. 
$==109;for(split//,q{
         /
      ++++++
  ++o-------=++   ++
++_--------------<+
  ++,+++++++++    +/
     --------     --
        -/           {
){m?\s??():s:-|+:$=$&$&:?eval:print chr($=)}

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