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by mc_hammer 4350 days ago

    $_ = 'somestring';
    `$_`;     // backticks are shell or exec(), $_ is the previous string.
type echo "'^#(/||/@!@[{@:^[-['^";@@@\\>])@."."{)/];)^{";$,+=(++$,);$_.=">&$," to see what it does

;$,+=(++$,); looks like a for loop

looks like php to me - backticks work in perl, bash and php