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by StavrosK 4763 days ago
I'm not the author, and I don't know much Perl either, but I imagine something like this:

$_=@_%*!8%#9(

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What does that do? $_ = @_ I can understand.. mod *!8 ..??? Ugh, Perl.
Nothing, it's just gibberish I made up. The worst thing is that it actually looks like plausible Perl :P
Only to someone that doesn't actual know Perl, which tends to be the people who disparage it (see the Blub comment above).

    (()())))lambda())((((())mapcar '5'(34343)()))))
"Lisp" sucks too, just look ^
Well, I know enough Perl to read the non-magical stuff, but I also know that I don't know it well enough to read obfuscated Perl.