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[[pl:Just another Perl hacker]]
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A [[Perl]] program which prints "Just another Perl hacker," (the comma being [[canonical]] but occasionally omitted)
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using extremely [[obfuscated code|obfuscated]] methods, typically ones
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based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions,
in the spirit of the [[The International Obfuscated C Code Contest|Obfuscated C Contest]].
The obfuscation can result from the code being total gibberish, e.g.:
<pre>$_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//;</pre>
or from having "Just another Perl hacker," embedded in opaque code:
<pre>$_='987;s/^(d+)/$1-1/e;$1?eval:print"Just another Perl hacker,"';eval</pre>
or from looking like it does something simple and completely
unrelated to printing "Just another Perl hacker":
<pre>$_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgc";
tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print;</pre>
This phrase was popularized by [[Randal L. Schwartz]], who created most of the first such programs in the signatures of his postings to the [[Usenet newsgroup]] comp.lang.perl (the predecessor to the modern comp.lang.perl.misc).
== See also ==
* [[Obfuscated Perl contest]]
== External Links ==
* [http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-japh Cultured Perl: The Elegance of JAPH]
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This article or earlier version of it contains material from [[FOLDOC]] article '''japh''', with permission.
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