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Release of version 0.91 of Acme::Smirch
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NAME
Acme::Smirch - For *really* dirty programs
SYNOPSIS
use Smirch;
Smirch::smear("tooClean.pl");
DESCRIPTION
If you have not yet seen the most clever Acme::Bleach.pm by Damian
Conway, go see that now. The only trouble with showing off Bleach to
your friends is that it requires Bleach to be installed on their
machines. So here is Smirch, that does the converse of Bleach - rewrites
your program using only non alphanumeric characters BUT it does not
depend on any external module! That's right - complete perl without
numbers or letters.
After you have Smirched a program, the program continues to work as
before except now it is absolutely unreadable as the module removes all
*sightly* characters from your source file.
The Smirched program has to sit in a file of its own - you cannot run a
smirched program by piping it to perl.
You can now reform your source to look like this:
$==$';
$;||$.| $|;$_
='*$ ( ^@(%_+&~~;# ~~/.~~
;_);;.);;#) ;~~~~;_,.~~,.* +,./|~
~;_);@-, .;.); ~ ~,./@@-__);@-);~~,.*+,.
/|);;;~~@-~~~~;;(),. ;.,./@,./@,.;_~~@-););,.
;_);~~,./@,.;;;./@,./ |~~~~;#-(@-__@-__&$#%^';$__
='`'&'&';$___="````" |"$[`$["|'`%",';$~=("$___$__-$[``$__"|
"$___"| ("$___$__-$[.%")).("'`"|"'$["|"'#").
'/.*?&([^&]*)&.*/$'.++$=.("/``"|"/$[`"|"/#'").(";`/[\\`\\`$__]//`;"
|";$[/[\\$[\\`$__]//`;"|";#/[\\\$\\.$__]//'").'@:=("@-","/.",
"~~",";#",";;",";.",",.",");","()","*+","__","-(","/@",".%","/|",
";_");@:{@:}=$%..$#:;'.('`'|"$["|'#')."/(..)(..)/".("```"|"``$["|
'#("').'(($:{$'.$=.'}<<'.(++$=+$=).')|($:{$'.$=.'}))/'.("```;"|
"``$[;"|"%'#;").("````'$__"|"%$[``"|"%&!,").${$[};`$~$__>&$=`;$_=
'*$(^@(%_+&@-__~~;#~~@-;.;;,.(),./.,./|,.-();;#~~@-);;;,.;_~~@-,./.,
./@,./@~~@-);;;,.(),.;.~~@-,.,.,.;_,./@,.-();;#~~@-,.;_,./|~~@-,.
,.);););@-@-__~~;#~~@-,.,.,.;_);~~~~@-);;;,.(),.*+);;# ~~@-,
./|,.*+,.,.);;;);*+~~@-,.*+,.;;,.;.,./.~~@-,.,.,.;_) ;~~~
~@-,.;;,.;.,./@,./.);*+,.;.,.;;@-__~~;#~~@-,.;;,.* +);;
#);@-,./@,./.);*+~~@-~~.%~~.%~~@-;;__,. /.);;#@- __@-
__ ~~;;);/@;#.%;#/.;#-(@-__~~;;;.;_ ;#.%~~~~ ;;()
,.;.,./@,. /@,.;_~~@- ););,.;_ );~~,./ @,.
;;;./@,./| ~~~~;#-(@- __,.,.,. ;_);~~~ ~@
-~~());; #);@-,./@, .*+);;; ~~@-~~
);~~);~~ *+~~@-);-( ~~@-@-_ _~~@-
~~@-);; #,./@,.;., .;.);@ -~~@-;
#/.;#-( ~~@-@-__ ~~@-~~ @-);@
-);~~, .*+,./ |);;;~ ~@-~~
;;;.; _~~@-@ -__);. %;#-(
@-__@ -__~~;# ~~@-;; ;#,.
;_,.. %);@-,./@, .*+,
..%, .;.,./|) ;;;)
;;#~ ~@-,.*+,. ,.~~
@-); *+,.;_);;.~ ~););
~~,.; .~~@-);~~,.;., ./.,.;
;,.*+ ,./|,.); ~~@- );;;,.(
),.*+); ;#~~/|@-
__~~;#~~ $';$;;
Valid and devious perl.
INSTALLATION
It's all pure Perl, so just put the .pm file in its appropriate
local Perl subdirectory.
TODO
Smirch currently spits out perl in one line - it would be nice to have
it reform the code automatically into pretty pictures like the above
camel.
BUGS
Yes.
Smirch does not work with windows (yet?). Also, smirched programs are a
little flakey and sadness happens when used with Bleach or anything too
strenuous. Use is unadvisable for anything important.
AUTHOR
Jasvir Nagra
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001, Jasvir Nagra. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
(see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)
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AVAILABILITY
Smirch has been uploaded to the CPAN
and is also available from:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jas/CPAN/Acme-Smirch.tar.gz
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