line noise

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English - English
Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link
Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file literally
Source code or a programming language that is terse and illegible. Write-only code or a write-only language

In short, Perl doesn't write illegible Perl, people do. If you can stop yourself being one of them, we can agree that Perl's reputation for looking like line noise is no more than a myth.

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