This is more a case of obfuscation through being arcane, rather than using any brand new super Perl idioms. I'm sure there are many ways you could shrink this, even after killing the red herrings :-) This took quite a while, but I figured my first JAPH required some effort, considering the fine precedents I see here :-)

It will not work under use strict

%->JAPH;$_ =~ s$$7011222324555617183920211233642536371829:-)
1011522314252647181920312213242516373839101112538425261748:(
291021$x;$;<=0x666;map{split//;$a.=$_[1]x$_[0];}split/(..)/;
$;=eval"\"0\",length(\$_)+33;"; my $s=reverse(0x258)+oct($;)
;map{my$q;my$og;if(($_-$l)<0){$l=-1};$x[$;++/6].=$_-$l;if (#
length($x[($;-1)/6])==6){my@f=split//,$x[($;-1)/6];$f[0]&&(
$q=-1)||($q=1);foreach my$ui((7-6)...(30/6)){$og+=2**($ui-1)
if$f[$ui];}$og*=$q;$s+=$og;print chr($s);}$l=$_;}split//,$a;

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