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93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs (0x2121.com)

submitted 2 months ago by moonpiedumplings to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://0x2121.com/7/Lost_in_Translation/

Alt Text: (For searchability): 3 part comic, drawn in a simple style. The first, leftmost panel has one character yelling at another: "@+_$^P&%!. The second comic has them continue yelling, with their hands in an exasperated position: "$#*@F% $$#!". In the third comic, the character who was previously yelling has their hands on their head in frustration, to which the previously silent character responds: "Sorry, I don't speak Perl".

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I primarily use perl, and while I find its syntax easy to understand, I'll be the first to admit that its syntax and special use cases thereof does provide a way for some rather exotic symbol-garbage to be valid code.

Normal perl code is simple enough. But abnormal code does happen, sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident.

I'll share with you this gem:
Why is this program valid? I was trying to create a syntax error

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

"Vocational skills?" I was coding for fun since I was eight. Granted, I eventually turned the poor conversion of programs from 3-2-1 Contact! magazine into a lucrative career, but when I was young, it inhabited the same space as LEGO and reading novels under the covers too late.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Ironically, the part of Perl that looks most cursing is the regular expressions, and that’s the feature that so many modern languages have borrowed from Perl directly.