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93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs (www.mcmillen.dev)
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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree that a symbolic representation of the splatters would probably be more interesting. The whole point is that random character sequences are often valid Perl, though, so changing the generation method wouldn't change that aspect.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

The whole point is that random character sequences are often valid Perl

When I read the headline I also assumed “valid Perl program” meant it did something interesting. I was expecting to read an article about an interesting image to text conversion process that produced non-trivial Perl programs.