[Fun With Perl] One of those fancy .sig files

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

One of the more common ways to have "fun with Perl" is the 
obfuscation of the signature file. I had been trying _very_ hard to 
simply ignore Russ Albery's version :-) :-) when a co-worker chanced 
upon it and forwarded it to me.

# At 12:53 -0800 2/12/99, my co-worker wrote:
# > I'm not going to actually try to figure this out, but, um:
# >
# >
# > #!/usr/bin/perl -- Russ Allbery, Just Another Perl Hacker
# > $^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<[~||<Juukn{=,<S~|}<Jwx}qn{<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD gD,
# >  00Fz, 0,,( 0hF 0g)F/=, 0> "L$/GEIFewe{,$/ 0C$~> "@=,m,|,(e 0.), 01,pnn,y{
# > rw} >;,$0=q,$,,($_=$^)=~y,$/ C-~><@=\n\r,-~$:-u/ #y,d,s,(\$.),$1,gee,print
# >
# >                                                  ^
# >                                                  |
# >                                                  why does it even *see*
# > the print statement?


I worked it through... and also sent my solution to Russ who wrote 
back with the answer that he posts when people write to him and 
say... "huh?!".

Russ has given me his permission to use his sig (and his 
exp,lanation) here, so... I'll let ya'll ponder for a bit (it's not 
as much fun if the answer is posted with the quiz :-)

Now some of you, of course, know the answer already. Your job is to 
give us a puzzle of your own :-)

- Vicki
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