Obfuscated Perl contest

The Obfuscated Perl contest is a competition for programmers of Perl which has been held annually since 1996.

Entrants to the competition aim to write devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code [http://www.tpj.com/documents/s=1286/sam03020012/]*.

The competition is divided into four categories and each entrant is allowed to submit twice to each category. The categories include:

The best four-line signature

Most powerful (limit of 1024 bytes)

Most creative (limit of 2048 bytes)

Best The Perl Journal (code which generates the words The Perl Journal , limit of 2048 bytes)

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.

=See also=

*Obfuscated code *Perl *Just another Perl hacker *Obfuscating software *The International Obfuscated C Code Contest *International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest

=External links=

*[http://perl.plover.com/obfuscated/ Second-place contest winner with explanation]

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