Olly's nick printed a tad bit more complicated

[olly]

I was on IRC and then we came up with the following statement with which to print olly.

print"@{[substr(reverse(q(hello)),0,3)]}y";

Imagination is more important then knowledge -Einstein-

[srawls]

I don't see how this is obfuscated, the only thing that one might consider obcuscated is that little @{ ... }, but anyone who has read programming perl knows about that. I'm not trying to critisize you now, I would never do that to a fellow monk, I'm just wondering how it's obfuscated.

The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
Stephen Rawls

[myocom]

Strictly speaking (not to be confused with strictly...), obfuscated code is any code that is more complicated than it needs to be. Even print reverse(reverse('foo')); is obfuscated.

Thanks to the Obfuscated <insert your favorite language here> contest, though, obfuscation has become an art form. So while Olly's code would never win the Obfuscated Perl contest, it's still obfuscated.

[olly]

Well I thought the it is more complicated then it needed to be, obfuscated code doesn't have to be hard to understand does it?

Imagination is more important then knowledge -Einstein-

[Beatnik]

Merriam-Webster lists it as:

Main Entry: ob·fus·cate
Pronunciation: 'äb-f&-"skAt; äb-'f&s-"kAt, &b-
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cat·ed; -cat·ing
Etymology: Late Latin obfuscatus, past participle of obfuscare, from Latin
ob- in the way + fuscus dark brown -- more at OB-, DUSK
Date: 1577
1 a : DARKEN b : to make obscure
2 : CONFUSE
- ob·fus·ca·tion /"äb-(")f&s-'kA-sh&n/ noun
- ob·fus·ca·to·ry /äb-'f&s-k&-"tOr-E, &b-, -"tor-/
adjective 

Which basically means it should be hard to understand :)

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.