Japh

2 definitions found

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  JAPH
       Just Another PERL Hacker (PERL)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  japh
       
           A {Perl} program which prints "Just another Perl
          hacker" using extremely obfuscated methods, typically ones
          based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions,
          in the spirit of the {Obfuscated C Contest}.
       
          The obfuscation can result from the code being total
          gibberish, e.g.:
       
           $_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//;
       
          or from having "Just another Perl hacker" embedded in opaque
          code:
       
           $_='987;s/^(\d+)/$1-1/e;$1?eval:print"Just another Perl hacker,"';eval
       
          or from looking like it does something simple and completely
          unrelated to printing "Just another Perl hacker":
       
           $_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgc";
           tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print;
       
          {Examples (http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/japh)}.
       
          (1997-09-14)