meaning of janus

1. A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace.
2. Janus 1. Distributed language with an ask/tell constraint system. qdjanus is a Janus-to-Prolog compiler for Sicstus Prolog and jc is compiles to C. ["Janus: A Step Towards Distributed Constraint Programming", V. Saraswat xerox. com> et al in Logic Programming: Proc 1990 North Am Conf, S. Debray et al eds, MIT Press 1990]. ["Programming in Janus", Saraswat, Kahn, and Levy]. 2. W. M. Waite, U Colorado. Intermediate language, claimed as an implementation of UNCOL. Used on CDC 6600. ["Experience with the Universal Intermediate Language Janus", B. K. Haddon et al, Soft Prac & Exp 85:601- 616 Sep 1978]. 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 hacke 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://www. perl. com/CPAN/misc/japh.
3. Roman mythology the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head

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