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Obfuna
Obfuna is an esoteric programming language designed to minimise the instruction set, the length of code necessary to express a program, and the readability while still remaining vaguely useful. To achieve these goals, all Obfuna operations are assigned one-character names and take exactly one argum..

Obfuscated code
Obfuscated code is source code that is (perhaps intentionally) very hard to read and understand. Some languages are more prone to obfuscation than others. C, C++ and Perl are most often cited as easily obfuscatable languages. Macro preprocessors are often used to create hard to read code by masking ..

Obfuscated Perl contest
The Obfuscated Perl contest is a competition for programmers of Perl which was held annually between 1996 and 2000. Entrants to the competition aim to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code" [link]You may need to subscribe to the Perl Journal to be ab..

Obfuscated Weird Language
Obfuscated Weird Language, or OWL, is an esoteric programming language developed by Antonio Maschio between 2005 and 2006. It is based on Forth and FALSE and is an interpreted, stack-based language. An OWL program is a sequence of ASCII characters, hereafter called the code stream. Contents 1&n..

Obfuscating software
Obfuscating software (also known as obfuscators) is software designed to inhibit reverse engineering of software even when source code is available, by converting it to obfuscated code, making the source code far less readable and almost impossible to understand by a human being. Thus, the basic fun..

Obfuscation
For the term as used in computer science, see Obfuscated code. Obfuscation refers to the concept of concealing the meaning of communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. Obfuscation may be used for other purposes. Doctors have been accused of using jargon to conceal unpleasa..

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