This is a tool to make self-contained and self-extracting archives, that
are also Perl files. It is useful for distributing things like CGI
scripts, as the resulting Perl file can simply be uploaded and run, and
it will unarchive its contents and delete itself. I wrote it for The
Desktop, but everyone is welcome to use it. It's
released as public domain software.
PerlHP is an attempt to give Perl the same simplicity and hackiness that
PHP has spent years trying to forget. It lets you put together simple
dynamic web pages more quickly than writing them in plain Perl, and with
less mental anguish than writing them in PHP. It is also cheerfully
obfuscated, but luckily you don't need to actually look at it to use it.
PerlHP started out as a
joke, but it did turn out
to be useful - for instance, I wrote this page using it. It can reduce
both PHP and Perl programmers to incoherent rambling, which I also view
as a success.
It has its own homepage. Visit it for
more information!
Wilt is a compression algorithm designed to be very simple to
implement, but still competitive with popular compression algorithms.
Its compression ratio lies somewhere between Deflate/gzip and bzip2
on average, yet it takes only about a page of C code to implement
a decompressor.
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