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- From: merlyn@romulus.reed.edu (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Just another Perl hacker
- Message-ID: <MERLYN.92Aug21132331@romulus.reed.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 20:23:35 GMT
- References: <BtCJ74.3Dq.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Reed College
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- In-Reply-To: jfriedl+@CS.CMU.EDU's message of 21 Aug 92 18:25:51 GMT
-
- In article <BtCJ74.3Dq.1@cs.cmu.edu> jfriedl+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jeffrey Friedl) writes:
- Ok, so why isn't there an Obfuscated Perl Contest?
-
- Not that the above is a particularly good example, but there's little
- doubt that Randal would be the winner of the 1st OPC (-:
-
- Maybe he and the other two of the PT (Perl Trinity) should be the judges
- (which would leave more chance for the rest of us). Hmmm, maybe not...
- I'd love to see what they would come up with (only the use of documented
- features allowed, though! :-)
-
-
- [The Perl Trinity... heh.]
-
- Actually, the most obscure Perl code, especially for JAPH's or
- near-JAPH's has come from others, not me. Unless you count my
- one-line paper-tape-image reader... :-)
-
- And, I've stumbled into a bit of JAPH-block over the past six months,
- for fear of repeating myself, I think. Maybe I should quietly start
- reposting some of my older ones... heh.
-
- Also, romulus.reed.edu is a 2.5 second telnet delay from where I spend
- most of my online time (it's out on the skinny branches of the NWnet:
- "if there's a bright center to the internet, you're on the wire that
- is farthest from it"). Have you ever tried to be creative when you
- can't even see what you're typing?
-
- That also partially explains the shift from "answer everything" to
- "answer just a few things"... it takes me too darn long to type this
- stuff now.
-
- I know, complain, complain.
-
- $] =~ /(p..l)/; print "Just another \u$1 hacker,"
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