Emboldened by my deciphering results of yesterday (and inspired by this), I decided to create the first (AFAIK) palindromic JAPH. Though the algorithm isn't terribly obfuscated, I took a harder route by not including any comments in the code, because otherwise you could do something like

print "Just another Perl hacker,\n"; # ;"n/,rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ" tnirp

So everything you see here is parseable by perl (although, as the saying goes, I'm not quite sure why it is).

Each line is character-reversed, with the exception of parentheses and braces (which are balanced), and the slash chars "/" and "\", which are exchanged for their counterparts, because it just looks better.

                                      $_='=_$
                                      JustsuJ
                                   anotherehtona
                                      PerlreP
                                   hacker,rekcah
                                        ;';
                                         @
                                    tilps=split
                                         ;
                             ;shift@tilps;split@tfihs;
                               ;split@pop;pop@tilps;
;s{^(.+)(.)(.)\2.+$}{$1$2$3}s||1for@tilps;split@rof1||s{3$2$1$}{$+.2/(
+.)(.)(+.)^}s;
            print$_.$",for@tilps;print$/ ; \$tnirp;split@rof,"$._$tnir
+p
                                        ;";
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