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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)

TLDR: read the paper and view the gallery of pretty Perl programs. In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?

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Published1 h ago (Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:34:23 GMT)
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