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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's like learning Perl back in the day, then needing to learn use strict;

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

Perl is a write-only language.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago

I used to love it, it could look a lot like c, or you could do crap like

$_=<<'';y;\r\n;;d;$_=pack'b*',$_;$_=eval;$@&&die$@;$_

Admittedly, they're trying to obfuscate it, but even unpacking it a bit, it looks alien.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago
[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago

Yes! That was the other thing I wanted to include, but I couldn't remember the name or search for it, so I wrote it off as a fever dream!

this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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