99% of HS Seniors Can't Read Perl!

[XZeroII]

I don't even know what it does I just took it from the article. I'm in that 99%. So far, I havn't seen anyone here who is planning on doing some illegal stuff with it.

 

[notfred]

<< I don't even know what it does >>



See my post above - it decrypts DVDs.

 

[dude8604]

<<
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048)
{
$a=29;$c=142;i
f((@a=unx"C*",$_)
[20]&48)
{
$h=5;$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])
}
@ARGV;
s/...$/1$&/;$d=unxV,xb25,$_;
$b=73;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];
$d=$d>>8^($f=($t=255)&($d>>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&
($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=(
map
{$_%16or$t^=$c^=
($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^
=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]
}

(16..271))[$_]^
(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]
}
print+x"C*",@a}';
s/x/pack+/g;
eval
>>



does that help? I don't know perl, so I'm not sure.

 

[Descartes]

<< Well it's not a bad idea if writing unmaintainable code gives them a better chance to keep their jobs. >>



Speaking of that; I once saw a comment in production code surrounding this horrible routine that said...

"job security"

Of course, the guy who wrote that was no longer maintaining the system

 

[Descartes]

As notfred said, it's just for fun. They have obfuscated C contests as well, it just so happens that Perl can be written to look like line noise on a text terminal.

 

[joohang]

<<

<< Well it's not a bad idea if writing unmaintainable code gives them a better chance to keep their jobs. >>



Speaking of that; I once saw a comment in production code surrounding this horrible routine that said...

"job security"

Of course, the guy who wrote that was no longer maintaining the system >>


LOL

 

[rawoutput]

Learning real human languages will probably get you more enjoyment out of life. Who gives a damn if 99% can't read Perl, I'm sure that same % don't weigh 350 pounds and wear suspenders either, which is obviously a good thing. Hurray for the last 1%, the world needs low-level programmers to take care of the sh!t work.

 

[StinkyMeat]

Ok, how many of you, when you read the thread title, thought back to the article "Johnny Can't Read" from the SimCity2000 newspapers? Come on...I know you did...