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==Imitations==

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A variant of this, practiced by programmers working on the [[Parrot virtual machine|Parrot]] project, involves Parrot assembly programs printing the phrase "Just another Parrot hacker":

# OO obfuscated

bounds 1

trace 0

newclass P0, "Just another Parrot Hacker\n"

shift S0, P5

does I0, P0, S0

add I0, 4

bsr I0

pack S0, 381, I0, I0

invoke

ret

Often Parrot JAPHs are only lightly obfuscated; they're usually intended to demonstrate or test a feature in a non-trivial use.

A different form of imitation would be to solve the exercise in a system outside of [[Perl]]. This example is supposed to be run in a [[Bourne shell]] and will create a [[Computer file|file]] named "Just another Perl Hacker" (on a [[file system]] that supports it) in the current working directory. The [[String (computer science)|string]] to print will be determined by the "basename" command.