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title: Perl illiteracy
date: "2003-05-15T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 911
description: A satirical look at Perl's reputation for being write-only code, featuring a BBspot news story about high school students failing to interpret obfuscated DeCSS programs during standardized testing.
keywords: [perl, decss, satire, bbspot, obfuscation, programming languages]
---

[US high school seniors can't read Perl](http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/03/perl_test.html). Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).