Of course the next step up from the Perl one-liner is the Perl obfuscation.
Possibly one of the most famous of these is the Camel Code:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=45213

And then there are the JAPH's (the Camel Code is actually a JAPH):

http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh

Perl is truly awesome.... or truly horrendous, depending on your viewpoint

Darren :)

2009/2/26 Gaurav Vaidya <[email protected]>

> Good afternoon,
>
> 2009/2/26 Ang Chin Han <[email protected]>:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> [http://www.catonmat.net/blog/perl-one-liners-explained-part-one/]
> >
> > Um, "famous"? Just some space mangling.
> Heh. Yeah, I wondered about that. When I think about "famous code",
> I'm thinking of stuff like this:
> http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/
>
> It's not just space mangling, though - it's only part one of five. I'm
> sure there's lots of other goodies to come. For my money, Perl one
> liners *really* come into their own with the fantastic collection of
> modules from the CPAN. Such as:
>  $  perl -M5.010 -MFile::Find -e 'find(sub {say if /\.txt$/} , ".")'
> which is quite handy on Windows (or anywhere you don't have find (1)
> present).
>
> > There should be much better ones.
> > http://sial.org/howto/perl/one-liner/
> > http://www.math.harvard.edu/computing/perl/oneliners.txt
> > http://www.ajs.com/ajswiki/Perl_one-liners
> I'd like to add http://twitter.com/perloneliner to that list - even if
> you aren't on Twitter, you can subscribe to the RSS feed and get a
> pretty cool one liner every day.
>
> cheers,
> Gaurav
>
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