The Obfuscated Perl Contest was a competition for programmers of Perl which was held annually between 1996 and 2000. It was run by The Perl Journal and took its name from The International Obfuscated C Code Contest.[1]
Entrants to the competition aim to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code" [2].
The competition is typically divided into four categories, which, in the most recent contest, included:
The entries are judged on aesthetics, output and incomprehensibility. One entrant per year will gain the Best of Show award.
Entrants are advised to try and demonstrate a range of Perl knowledge, whilst being humorous, surprising and deceitful. Code which purposefully crashes the judges' machines is not recommended.
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