3) Perl Poetry L.Wall (1990).
According to the pink camel book, the April 1990 posting was aforgery. You might want to ask Sharon Hopkins.
4) Haiku Popularized by D.Conway(1998) in Coy module,
but were they popular before this?
Obviously a direct outgrowth of the poetry.
6) Obfus Derived from JAPHS (?)
Most likely the other way around. There has been an annualbut were they popular before this?
Obviously a direct outgrowth of the poetry.
6) Obfus Derived from JAPHS (?)
International Obfuscated C Code Contest since 1984. If you look at
the history on their web site (http://www.ioccc.org/) you will notice
that a certain L. Wall was a repeat winner.
7) Joke Modules sh2perl (R.Schwartz,1998)
My "Addition.pm" was released on 8 January 1998. I released"Identity.pm" on 23 February 1998. I can't think of any earlier joke
modules offhand, but of course that hardly means that there weren't
any.
9) April Fools 1990: "Black Perl" -- L.Wall
1998: sh2perl -- R.Schwartz
1999: Semi::semicolons -- M.Schwern
1999: "Java Mongers" -- ??
2001: parrot -- S.Cozens
2001: Acme::Buffy -- L.Brocard
There's some tradition of sending April Fool patches to p5p.1998: sh2perl -- R.Schwartz
1999: Semi::semicolons -- M.Schwern
1999: "Java Mongers" -- ??
2001: parrot -- S.Cozens
2001: Acme::Buffy -- L.Brocard
See for example
http://perl.plover.com/idiocy/April1/
