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perl
Pratical Extraction and Reporting Language.
Perl is a script programming language that is similar in syntax to the C language and that includes a number of popular Unix facilities such as SED, awk, and tr. Perl is an interpreted language that can optionally be compiled just before execution into either C code or cross-platform bytecode. When compiled, a Perl program is almost (but not quite) as fast as a fully precompiled C language program. Perl is regarded as a good choice for developing common gateway interface (CGI) programs because it has good text manipulation facilities (although it also handles binary files). It was invented by Larry Wall.
Perl is a script programming language that is similar in syntax to the C language and that includes a number of popular Unix facilities such as SED, awk, and tr. Perl is an interpreted language that can optionally be compiled just before execution into either C code or cross-platform bytecode. When compiled, a Perl program is almost (but not quite) as fast as a fully precompiled C language program. Perl is regarded as a good choice for developing common gateway interface (CGI) programs because it has good text manipulation facilities (although it also handles binary files). It was invented by Larry Wall.
perl by Nick Mitchell April 12, 2003
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perl
perl
A programming language popular on *nix systems.
For some reason, Perl programmers find the need to write programs as small as possible. Many have attributed this to a similar phenonenom for unintelligent men to compensate for the size of their manhood by purchasing large, powerful cars. Instead of compensating by showing how immense their purchasing power (and in many cases, debt) is, Perl programmers compensate by showing how large their brains are.
Unfortunatley, this results in much Perl code to be somewhat difficult to understand by just looking at.
For some reason, Perl programmers find the need to write programs as small as possible. Many have attributed this to a similar phenonenom for unintelligent men to compensate for the size of their manhood by purchasing large, powerful cars. Instead of compensating by showing how immense their purchasing power (and in many cases, debt) is, Perl programmers compensate by showing how large their brains are.
Unfortunatley, this results in much Perl code to be somewhat difficult to understand by just looking at.
Perl
The only programming language that actually has contests held to see who can make the most unreadable code.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
my @srcFiles=grep{!/\.bak$/i && !m{(^|/)CVS(/|$)} && -f $_} DfcD::GlobR("Src/*");
...
BEGIN {
{ $0=~/(.*\\)?(.*)\./; print STDERR "$2 version 0.0.2\n\n"; }
for (@ARGV) { m!^(-/\?|-H|--help)$!i && &help() }
0==@ARGV and &help();
...
bless /@aCcbPth0, DfcXxx::Sort keys %hDirs, sort{[lc $a->name cmp lc $b->name or $a->name cmp $b->name} values %hNonDirs,
# undef,
],$class;
...
my @srcFiles=grep{!/\.bak$/i && !m{(^|/)CVS(/|$)} && -f $_} DfcD::GlobR("Src/*");
...
BEGIN {
{ $0=~/(.*\\)?(.*)\./; print STDERR "$2 version 0.0.2\n\n"; }
for (@ARGV) { m!^(-/\?|-H|--help)$!i && &help() }
0==@ARGV and &help();
...
bless /@aCcbPth0, DfcXxx::Sort keys %hDirs, sort{[lc $a->name cmp lc $b->name or $a->name cmp $b->name} values %hNonDirs,
# undef,
],$class;
...
Perl by Jason Brandt December 29, 2007