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Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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For those of you interested in Perl this is pretty interesting stuff. Some of it is really amazing. If you are interested more info is available at http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/obfusc-5.html. To give you an idea of what is involved this is last years winner in catagory 4 - Print "The Perl Journal" in 256 characters or less.
Maybe i'm not just looking at it right but I don't see those words, just a bunch of #'s. =) Anyways I think Perl is the perfect language to hold such a competition. Too many of those RE expressions in a row is quite fiendish!
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Some would say that Perl is obfuscated to begin with. I think that Perl is usually quite readable, although some regexs do get pretty nasty.
BTW, The code doesn't print the #'s, it prints "THEPERLJOURNAL".
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