I must confess that I wrote a buggy but small script that makes perl
code unreadable. I promise. It basically removes comments, excess white space, and
changes all the
identifiers to weird names. It was during a
silly moment and I'm not proud. But, if you can get it to be any uglier,
we can use it to generate secret codes in perl :). I'd suggest moving
all the strings to the front and doing some random reversible operations
as a final bit of ugliness.
http://www.gidon.com/scratch/
Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Fabrice Scemama wrote:
> > There's another way. We can't build pre-compiled modules easily,
> > but even when you code in C or Java, desassemblers can extract
> > some source from the binaries you deliver. As far as perl scripts are
> > concerned, a workaround consists in trivially removing all comments
> > and \n from the source, which makes it as hard to understand as
> > raw C desassembled code.
>
> Maybe the way _you_ write code :)
>
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