Contest
The entries were judged on aesthetics, output and incomprehensibility. One entrant per year received the Best of Show award. Entrants were advised to try and demonstrate a range of Perl knowledge, while being humorous, surprising and deceitful. Code which purposely crashed the judges' machines was discouraged.
The competition was typically divided into four categories, which, in the last contest, included:
- Create a Diversion (limit of 2048 bytes if using Perl/Tk, 512 bytes otherwise)
- World Wide Wasteland (limit of 512 bytes)
- Inner Beauty (limit of 512 bytes)
- Best The Perl Journal (code which generated the words The Perl Journal, limit of 256 bytes)
Read more about this topic: Obfuscated Perl Contest
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