JAPH 2001

This JAPH was uncovered on the Moon, near the crater Tycho.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# A tribute to one of the greatest films of all time.



my(%primate, $monolith, $evolution, $contact);




            $_='primate-> throw
            ( "Bone" ) ;  goto;
            $$monolith ;  bless
            %primate;$evolution
            =~m/?+*/; #/*+?/m~= 
            *humanIntellect ++;
            $Discovery =~ m . [
            [::]>>=<>=<>=<>=(-)
            ]. ; require  2001;
            exists($malfunction
            )#open $podBayDoors 
            or die ; HAL-> sing
            ("Daisy");sleep()*'
            ;my@universe= qw(15 
            1 6 4 35 1  12 2 23 
            2 14 1  8 2 0  5 25 
            1 39 3 7 2);my $God
            ;$monolith="******"
            ;  my  @spaceTime = 
            split/;/,$_ ; while 
            (my($space,$time )= 
            splice (@universe,0
            ,2) ) { my $journey 
            = shift @spaceTime;
            eval " $journey; ";
            $contact = substr (
            $@, $space, $time )
            ; if ( $space != ((
            " dimension " =~ //
            ) +1+4+9 ) ) {print 
            $contact; next; }my   
            $starChild=$contact
            ;print uc$starChild



}

[chipmunk]

That's a nice trick to get the desired characters!

I've discovered that this JAPH requires perl5.6.0 to run properly. There appears to be a bug in 5.005_03 that causes a fatal error to leak out of the eval instead of being trapped.

[joecamel]

Thanks. Yes, I was a little worried about that. I should have included "require 5.6.0". I just hope that the error messages read the same on all platforms. :)

This one was a real joy to write. I really liked being able to shift @spaceTime. Did you notice the ASCII Discovery?

joecamel

[a]

Works on my win32 ... oops. Its 5.6.0 (w/ one registered patch). <sigh> nevermind.

a