V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

JAPH
       Just Another PERL Hacker (PERL)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

japh

    A Perl program which prints "Just another Perl
   hacker" using extremely obfuscated methods, typically ones
   based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions,
   in the spirit of the Obfuscated C Contest.

   The obfuscation can result from the code being total
   gibberish, e.g.:

    $_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//;

   or from having "Just another Perl hacker" embedded in opaque
   code:

    $_='987;s/^(\d+)/$1-1/e;$1?eval:print"Just another Perl
hacker,"';eval

   or from looking like it does something simple and completely
   unrelated to printing "Just another Perl hacker":

    $_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgc";
    tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print;

   Examples (http://perl.com/CPAN/misc/japh).

   (1997-09-14)