And JAPH (Just Another Perl Hacker) type constructs that are meant to bend the language in weird ways and show off the person's knowledge of the language intric

And JAPH (Just Another Perl Hacker) type constructs that are meant to bend the language in weird ways and show off the person's knowledge of the language intricacies. They were a lot of fun, but likely gave a distorted idea of an average Perl program, to those unfamiliar with it.