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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
- abhinai 7y agoOnce upon a time I used to love Perl.
- jumelles 7y agoSeems to me that the OCR software is doing the heavy lifting here, not Perl.
- nkozyra 7y ago(I don't think this thing is meant to be taken literally)
- andrewstuart 7y agoIt would be interesting to run samples from the cosmic microwave background radiation through the Perl interpreter until something runs.
- celeritascelery 7y agoIt would explain so much https://xkcd.com/224/ https://xkcd.com/224/
- rosser 7y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425
- 13of40 7y agoOh god this hits close to home for me. We all know that a one liner can be valid js, vbs, ps1, and cmd at the same time, but you would never imagine the html, xml, csv, crap, and cruft files that parse correctly in those languages. (To be clear, whenever we mistake a .cruft for a .cmd at my work, it means firing up a (relatively expensive) VM...)