It works fine on perl 5.8.1-RC3/Mac OS X 10.3/PPC G4 and perl 5.8.4/Debian Sarge/AMD K6 MMX, so endianness does not appear to be an issue. It fails on perl 5.6.1/Red Hat Linux 7.3/Intel 486DX because the string passed to srand() is not entirely numeric and therefore is interpreted as 0. The following modification works around this: 
$"='314747"7"84561"12"277057"10"53708"12"2466"25"';
sub _{$;.=chr(rand(24)+64)}while($"){$"=~s/(.*?)"//
;srand$1;rand(24)for(1.."$\"");$"=~s/.*?"//;_()for(
1..5)}$;=~y/BV/ ./;$;=~s/\w+/\u\L$&/g;print$;.$/

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in thread JAPH randomness by awwaiid

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