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From:
Andrew.Savige
Date:
August 21, 2001 18:32
Subject:
World's First JAPH
Message ID:
C0D2F5944500D411AD8A00104B31930ED6CB7A@ir_nt_server2
The editor of the Guinness Book of Records is eager
to identify the World's First JAPH.

In particular, he wants to know:
 1) the JAPH content
 2) who sent it and to whom
 3) date/time sent
 4) site where it was composed
He further enquires as to whether any form of tourist
attraction has been built at the site where it was
composed.

http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html states that JAPHs
began in 1988, and suggests the first one might have been:
 print "Just another Perl hacker,"
Yet the earliest one listed at http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh is:

From merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) 1 Feb 90 22:28:58 GMT
@a=split(/(\d)/,"4Hacker,2another3Perl1Just");shift(@a);%a=@a;
print "@a{1..4}";

Does anyone know the World's First JAPH?

Andrew.


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