Colin McMillen

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93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)

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TLDR: read the paper and view the gallery of pretty Perl programs. In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?