OT Perl Madness, was Re: [SLUG] Hiding Perl Code - Using Morse.pm

[Michael Lake <mikel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

education@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Sluggers:
> I have Perl code written in various .pl files. One main file uses
.......
> Objective and Problem:
> I tried to use Morse.pm to hide the code in the POD formatted files only.
> The code is hidden when I first run them from my PC. However the main
> script file which is not Morsed cannot read the Morsed encoded code.

After finding Morse so funny it reminded me of the article I read last 
year that there is a Perl module for writing Perl in Latin. I looked it 
up and found a few other funny snippets ....

Lingua::Romana::Perligata
-------------------------

see http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html

 #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
 use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;
 adnota Illud Cribrum Eratothenis
 maximum tum val inquementum tum biguttam tum stadium egresso scribe.
 vestibulo perlegementum da meo maximo .
 maximum tum novumversum egresso scribe.
 da II tum maximum conscribementa meis listis.
 dum damentum nexto listis decapitamentum fac sic
 lista sic hoc tum nextum recidementum cis vannementa da listis.
 next tum biguttam tum stadium tum nextum tum novumversum
 scribe egresso.
 cis


Nigerian
--------

 #!/usr/bin/perl
 use Acme::Lingua::NIGERIAN;
 DEAR SIR,
 I AM THE SON OF LATE PRESIDENT ONE-OR-THE-OTHER OF NIGERIA.
 TRANSFER_DISCREETLY SWISS_BANK_ACCOUNT "H!!!ELLO N!!!IGERIA\N";
 TRANSFER_DISCREETLY SWISS_BANK_ACCOUNT US$17 MILLION, "\N";
 TRANSFER_DISCREETLY SWISS_BANK_ACCOUNT US$17 MILLION + 25, "\N";

Pirate
------

use Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl;

Then use the following bits o' argot to pepper up yer Perl:

* be for eq, equal for ==
* seize or steal or plunder for shift
* thrust for push, hurl for pop
* keelhaul or scupper or sink or capsize for die
* curse for warn
* the booty or the treasure for @_
* the gold or the doubloons for $_
* Davy Jones' Locker for $@, a whale for $! and a hornpipe for $%
* sound off, yell or cry for print
* vast for uc, puny for lc
* squint at for study
* cast off for return, sail off for exit

You also have a wide range of traditional pirate vocabulary to scatter 
through your code and make it all the more piratical, although they 
won't cause anything to actually happen, except perhaps terrifying any 
landlubbers who happen to read your code.

* Arr!
* Arrr!
* Arrrr!
* Yar!
* Yarr!
* Yarrr! (note the varying levels of emphasis to match your mood...)
* Avast!
* Shiver me timbers!
* Splice the mainbrace!
* Yo ho!
* Yo ho ho!




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Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.