Editing Obfuscated Perl Contest (section)

{{Short description|Perl programming competition}}
The '''Obfuscated Perl Contest''' was a competition for programmers of [[Perl]] which was held annually between 1996 and 2000.  Entrants to the competition aimed to write "devious, inhuman, disgusting, amusing, amazing, and bizarre Perl code".<ref>[http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0012.html The 3rd Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest] Felix Gallo – Perl Journal (You may need to subscribe to the Perl Journal to be able to view this link, which is the source of the quote given.)</ref> It was run by ''The Perl Journal'' and took its name from the [[International Obfuscated C Code Contest]].<ref>{{cite book|page=256|title=[[Advanced Perl Programming]]|author=Simon Cozens|publisher=O'Reilly|year=2005|isbn=978-0-596-00456-9}}</ref>