Hmm, indeed Perl is very peculiar in its faculties. One can cleverly disguise a perl code for a plain text. Here, I've tried to spoil your obfuscation a bit. It ends up being just a couple statements. And the text that is getting printed is the result of substitution on the '$_' scalar. Since, $_ initially doesn't hold anything, by replacing '' (nothing) with ' you any point why program this can not start its run of lif', this text is saved in the '$_' variable, which you then output with the print; method.

exit if  s//   you any point
why program this can not start
its run of lif/
and 
  print "$_" 
or 
  do'not print what it decides to thus giving us example of free will!
+'
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$"=q;grep;;$,=q"grep";for(`find . -name ".saves*~"`){s;$/;;;/(.*-(\d+)
+-.*)$/;
$_=["ps -e -o pid | "," $2 | "," -v "," "];`@$_`?{print"+ $1"}:{print"
+- $1"}&&`rm $1`;
print$\;}
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