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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Muntfish (talk | contribs) at 12:54, 5 July 2005. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

How the heck can that program consisting only of keywords work? I just tried it out and it does work. But my experience of Perl is limited to debugging a very simple Perl script made by someone else, so I can't even begin to understand that mess. — JIP | Talk 15:23, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Some of the "keywords" are actually quote operators, for example qw, qq, q, qx. So some of what looks like keywords are actually quoted strings, and it's taking the first letter of each word: "join use sub tied" -> "just"; "abs ne open tied hex exp ref" -> "another"; "printf each return local" -> "perl"; "hex alarm chdir kill exec return" -> "hacker". I haven't figured out exactly how it's turning that into a print statement - but I'm sure it would be a useful learning experience figuring it out!! munt fish July 5, 2005 12:54 (UTC)
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