This reminds me of my friend's father who decided to learn programming later in his life and signed up for a class. Incredulously, their language of choice of Perl, and so not two weeks later he comes back from a class and shows a handout that says:

     slkjs/sdfjks/\1jksok/j23kjdj\skjd

   is the same as 

     lkkd\kk////?!@

   except latter is shorter and easier to understand

The note was actually correct and the actual expressions made sense, but to an average person both looked like a line noise. Needless to say it was his last class.

Thanks for the tip!