Obfuscated Perl contest
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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 able to view this link, which is the source of the quote given..
The competition is typically divided into four categories, which, in the most recent contest, included:
- Create a diversion (limit of 2048 bytes if using Perl/Tk, 512 bytes otherwise)
- World Wide Wasteland (limit of 512 bytes)
- Inner Beauty (limit of 512 bytes)
- Best The Perl Journal (code which generates the words The Perl Journal, limit of 256 bytes)
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.
See also
- Obfuscated code
- Perl
- Just another Perl hacker
- Obfuscating software
- The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
- International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest
External links
- [2000 Best of Show winner with explanation and commentary]
- [Second-place contest winner with explanation]
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