Re: What is JAPH?

In one of my talks I classify japhs as having the following characteristics:

Short programs, preferably at most four lines, no line exceeding 80 characters (so they can be used as Usenet signatures)
Print Just another Perl hacker, or some variation of that regarding punctuation or capitalization.
Have obscure or surprising syntax.

perl -Mstrict -we '$_ = "goto F.print chop;\n=rekcaH lreP rehtona tsuJ
+";F1:eval'
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Re: Re: What is JAPH? by Juerd (Abbot) on May 12, 2004 at 17:13 UTC
# Have obscure or surprising syntax. But then the first JAPH, `print "Just another Perl hacker,"` is not a JAPH! Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: What is JAPH? by tilly (Archbishop) on May 13, 2004 at 15:33 UTC
Surprise comes from an interaction between the event and the expectations of the observer. That JAPH is reserved for showing Java Programmers, whose response tends to be, Where's the rest of it? ;-)	[reply]