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The '''Obfuscated Perl Contest''' was a competition for programmers of [[Perl]] which was held annually between 1996 and 2000. Entrants to the competition aimed to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code".<ref>[http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0012.html The 3rd Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest] Felix Gallo – Perl Journal (You may need to subscribe to the Perl Journal to be able to view this link, which is the source of the quote given.)</ref> It was run by ''The Perl Journal'' and took its name from the [[International Obfuscated C Code Contest]].<ref>{{cite book|page=256|title=[[Advanced Perl Programming]]|author=Simon Cozens|publisher=O'Reilly|year=2005|isbn=978-0-596-00456-9}}</ref><br />
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== Contest ==<br />
The entries were judged on aesthetics, output and incomprehensibility. One entrant per year received the ''Best of Show'' award.<br />
Entrants were advised to try and demonstrate a range of Perl knowledge, while being humorous, surprising and deceitful. Code which purposely crashed the judges' machines was discouraged.<br />
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The competition was typically divided into four categories, which, in the last<!-- really last? --> contest, included:<br />
* Create a Diversion (limit of 2048 bytes if using Perl/Tk, 512 bytes otherwise)<br />
* World Wide Wasteland (limit of 512 bytes)<br />
* Inner Beauty (limit of 512 bytes)<br />
* Best ''The Perl Journal'' (code which generated the words ''The Perl Journal'', limit of 256 bytes)<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Obfuscated code]]<br />
* [[Just another Perl hacker]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite book|title=Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture|author=Jon Orwant|chapter=Obfuscated Perl|publisher=O'Reilly|year=2003|isbn=978-0-596-00312-8|pages=487–521}} — reprints of the announcements, made in ''The Perl Journal'' by Felix S. Gallo, of the Zeroth, First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth contests<br />
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