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93% 的油漆飞溅图案都是合法的 Perl 程序（2019）
93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)
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黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
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这是 SIGBOVIK（一个以玩笑论文著称的会议）上的小作品：作者用 OCR 识别颜料飞溅图案，发现其中 93% 的字符串恰好是合法的 Perl 程序。文章借此调侃 Perl 语法极其宽松、几乎什么都能被解析成程序。评论则围绕 Perl 的实用与痛苦、OCR 偏差等展开。
为什么经久不衰：它用荒诞实验揭示了 Perl “条条大路通程序”的语言特性，是程序员对 Perl 爱恨交织的经典梗，今天读来仍有趣且引人思考。
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用自嘲表达 Perl 让人又爱又怕的复杂感情。
有趣的阅读。我曾用 Perl 写过一个完整的 CMS，至今有时还会在梦里惊醒尖叫。（补充：这只是随口玩笑，无意冒犯，抱歉。）
ChrisMarshallNY查看英文原文
That's a fun read. I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl. I still wake up, screaming, sometimes. [UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant. @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it. Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.
Perl 曾赋予初学者自动化日常的强大能力，令人感激。
大学时出于好奇学了 Perl，读完《Programming Perl》后感觉自己有了超能力。我试图用 Perl 自动化生活的一切：早上脚本已经抓取并下载好课件、发去打印，找不到笔记就发邮件提醒，还写爬虫找校园里提供免费食物的活动。这是我第一次感到程序能真正改善生活，也改变了我对程序员能做什么的看法。永远感激 Perl。
debo_查看英文原文
In university, I learned Perl out of curiousity. It was the first scripting language I tried; I was only familiar with Java, C and Scheme at the time. After reading Programming Perl from cover-to-cover, I suddenly felt like I had superpowers. I probably would have felt the same if I'd taken the time to learn bash scripting, but that's not how it worked out. I tried to automate everything in my life with Perl. I'd walk to class in the morning and a script had already scraped and downloaded my lecture materials and sent a print job for me. It emailed me if it couldn't find notes for one of my scheduled classes. Others would manage my assignment submissions. I wrote scrapers to detect what events on campus might offer free food. This was the first time I felt like I could write programs that actually had the power to improve my life. It changed my perspective on what I had the power to do as a programmer. I'll always be grateful to Perl for that. I also learned how to quickly develop a thick programmer skin by asking questions on comp.lang.perl, but that's another topic altogether.
调侃文章标题与示例不符——有些“颜料飞溅”并非颜料。
作为 Perl 程序员兼画家，我必须指出：文中展示的程序并不是涂抹的，也不在墙上，甚至有些根本不是颜料：[链接]
biztos查看英文原文
As a Perl programmer and painter I must point out that the programs show in this article are not smeared, and not on a wall. Nor on a Wall. Some of them are not even paint: https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/splatters/646f93a2d62ad81932f2971a0d50e03e.jpg
OCR 偏向自然语言字符，导致结果容易成为合法标识符，削弱了“Perl 程序”的特殊性。
这显然只是好玩，但看输出示例，OCR 可能有问题：它似乎针对自然语言字符（字母和空格）优化，而不是代码中常见的运算符。特殊字符输出极少，这会严重偏向生成标识符，而标识符在大多数语言中都是合法的。
lucideer查看英文原文
This is obviously just a bit of fun, but looking at the output examples, I think the OCR used may be flawed in that it's heavily optimised to produce characters used in natural language (alpha & spaces) rather than to produce e.g. operators common in code. The number of "special characters" output is extremely small. This will bias it heavily toward producing identifiers, which will be valid in most common programming languages.
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