in reply to The merlyn's earliest JAPH

The earliest JAPH was simply:
print "Just another Perl hacker,";
The collection to which you reference in the CPAN is some of the early ones, but clearly never claim to be an archive of the earliest ones.

And to head off the next question: no, I didn't save a copy of any of those myself.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker