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		jumelles on Aug 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs Seems to me that the OCR software is doing the heavy lifting here, not Perl.

nkozyra on Aug 30, 2019 [–]

(I don't think this thing is meant to be taken literally)

andrewstuart on Aug 30, 2019 | [–]

It would be interesting to run samples from the cosmic microwave background radiation through the Perl interpreter until something runs.

celeritascelery on Aug 30, 2019 | | [–]

It would explain so much https://xkcd.com/224/

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