Snow flake

Feeling nostalgic, and just reminded by LanX of the time of the year, here's an old obfu I wrote ten years ago for the 2002 cam.pm Christmas programming contest:

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        $_.    $/,   ,for  $_  -18?   @;:    ###
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          ,map($|--?$"    x(-3    *11+ord):$_,
          /./g)}split+    Z,$~    ),@x);splice
         @;,   -$_,  2,pop@,;@;=(""  ,@;)   ;;;
          ;sleep!                      $%}+2..
            18#                          /-\
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Update 2021: changed egxfor to egx for to work with later version of Perl v5.32.

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Re: Snow flake by Tommy (Chaplain) on Dec 19, 2012 at 04:40 UTC
That. Was. Awesome. Truly, you have a dark gift. o_0 -- Tommy `$ perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print decode_base64 "YWNlQHRvbW15YnV0bGVyLm1lCg=="'`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Snow flake by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Dec 19, 2012 at 21:59 UTC
Wow, that was beautiful!	[reply]
Re: Snow flake by perlaintdead (Scribe) on Dec 28, 2012 at 05:10 UTC
simply amazing. however i am puzzled by the seemingly random colons. like: `print $_. $/, ,for $_ -18? @;:` [download] and `,map($\|--?$" x(-3 *11+ord):$_,` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Snow flake by Anonymous Monk on Dec 28, 2012 at 05:15 UTC
simply amazing. however i am puzzled by the seemingly random colons. Um, strings are strings :) B::Deparse, Data::Dump	[reply]
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