Editing Obfuscation (software) (section)

==Overview==
The architecture and characteristics of some languages may make them easier to obfuscate than others.<ref>{{cite web|last=Binstock |first=Andrew |url=http://www.devx.com/microsoftISV/Article/11351 |title=Obfuscation: Cloaking your Code from Prying Eyes |date=2003-03-06 |access-date=2013-11-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420165109/http://www.devx.com/microsoftISV/Article/11351 |archive-date=April 20, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Atwood |first=Jeff |url=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000291.html |title=Jeff Atwood, May 15, 2005 |publisher=Codinghorror.com |date=2005-05-15 |access-date=2013-11-25 |archive-date=January 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109174819/http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000291.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[C (programming language)|C]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kenter.demon.nl/obfuscate.html |title=Obfuscation |publisher=Kenter.demon.nl |access-date=2013-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033430/http://www.kenter.demon.nl/obfuscate.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[C++]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=38102 |title=C++ Tutorials – Obfuscated Code – A Simple Introduction |publisher=DreamInCode.net |access-date=2013-11-25 |archive-date=June 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080628050430/http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=38102 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://sites.google.com/site/rcorcs/posts/obfuscatedcode |title=C Tutorials – Obfuscated Code in C |date=2011-07-07 |access-date=2013-11-25 |archive-date=December 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227102549/https://sites.google.com/site/rcorcs/posts/obfuscatedcode |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[Perl]] [[programming language]]<ref>{{cite web |author=As of 2013-11-25 18:22 GMT |url=http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=291267 |title=Pe(a)rls in line noise |publisher=Perlmonks.org |access-date=2013-11-25 |archive-date=January 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116074243/http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=291267 |url-status=live }}</ref> are some examples of languages easy to obfuscate. [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]] is also quite obfuscatable<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiki.haskell.org/Obfuscation |title=Obfuscation – Haskell Wiki |date=2006-02-16 |access-date=2020-03-03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830203204/https://wiki.haskell.org/Obfuscation |archive-date=August 30, 2017 }}</ref> despite being quite different in structure.

The properties that make a language obfuscatable are not immediately obvious.