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It's like learning Perl back in the day, then needing to learn use strict;
Perl is a write-only language.
I used to love it, it could look a lot like c, or you could do crap like
$_=<<'';y;\r\n;;d;$_=pack'b*',$_;$_=eval;$@&&die$@;$_Admittedly, they're trying to obfuscate it, but even unpacking it a bit, it looks alien.
Or you can get a different kind of weird.
Yes! That was the other thing I wanted to include, but I couldn't remember the name or search for it, so I wrote it off as a fever dream!