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Obfuscated Perl Contest
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<p>The Obfuscated Perl Contest was a competition for programmers of <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a> which was held annually between 1996 and 2000. Entrants to the competition aimed to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code". It was run by <i>The Perl Journal</i> and took its name from the <a href="/facts/International_Obfuscated_C_Code_Contest/R4zdjcXV">International Obfuscated C Code Contest</a>. </p>