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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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.
