Perl Haiku Poetry Contest 306
ActiveState writes "Tell us why you love Perl. ActiveState is pleased to announce the ActiveState Perl Haiku Poetry Contest. Do you love Perl as much as we do? Then prove it with your passion, creativity, and wit! Categories include Best Haiku Poem Written in Perl and Best Haiku Poem About Perl. All entries will be featured on our website. Winners will be selected by ActiveState's Perl development team. Prizes will be awarded for the top three entries in each category and include licenses for ASPN Perl featuring Komodo Professional Edition, and cool ActiveState gear.
The deadline for entries is 12:00PM PST, February 8, 2004. Winners will be announced on February 10. Full contest rules are also online.
Good luck!"
fp.pl? (Score:5, Funny)
content-type: haiku/firstpost;
or die "i fail it";
Flaming newbies (Score:2, Funny)
I just wanted to know how
to run CGI
Re:fp.pl? (Score:5, Funny)
Alas, it wasn't to be
Try python next time
Right, bring it on. (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot posts again
Now I am scared
Other flames (Score:5, Funny)
Same person behind the name
Uri, do you care?
Fuck haiku (Score:0, Funny)
I just can't stand reading them
Don't you know they suck?
the real contest (Score:5, Funny)
Re:fp.pl? (Score:4, Funny)
it is powerful
it extracts and it reports
and it's a language
too hard (Score:5, Funny)
i can never remember
how many syllables you are supposed to put in each line
Re:the real contest (Score:5, Funny)
perl trix are for unix kids
try vb perhaps?
How do you pronounce.... (Score:5, Funny)
one more (Score:3, Funny)
See the State of the Onion
Go to Wall.org [wall.org]
Need a problem solved? (Score:1, Funny)
"You could just write a Perl script
to do that, you know."
awww man (Score:1, Funny)
I can never remember
the meter.
Re:Right, bring it on. (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot posts again Watch the haiku deluge flow I cover my ears
Reminds me of Corn Flakes (Score:5, Funny)
Perl Perl Perl Perl Perl Perl Perl
Perl Perl Perl Perl Perl
Lamness filter! Damn! Now how do I get past it? Don't know. Just give up.
Re:Perls before swine (Score:2, Funny)
His humor is real nerdy
But still, he's married
Re:fp.pl?(with line breaks) (Score:2, Funny)
Doubtful, gibberish perhaps.
Debugging, -> brain fail.
Perl in the real world (Score:5, Funny)
The damn program broke today
Can't grok my own code
mmm..... (Score:5, Funny)
each version incompatible with the last
god how i luv it
Re:More flaming (Score:2, Funny)
a day when Slashdot would combine Perl and haiku...
Revel in now 'cause it will never come again.
That is until next week when it gets duped.
My haiku actually does something (Score:5, Funny)
print dollar sign underscore
close curly bracket
System maintenance (Score:5, Funny)
delete $problems{$_}
Life should work like that
why perl should not be used to write software (Score:5, Funny)
I was just telling my boss
that Perl is bad.
The language is great.
Expressiveness *and* power.
bitch to maintain tho.
and they write haiku
in this programming language?
boss, I rest my case.
Re:Right, bring it on. (Score:5, Funny)
would haiku writer miss more
written part or math
Off the top of my head (Score:1, Funny)
Why does Perl sound so angry?
The Parrot will die.
Re:Haiki rules (Score:1, Funny)
there is more
than one way to do it
Re:Apologies in advance (Score:5, Funny)
Like there's one 'l' in Larry
RTFM, Newb.
My Entry (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Right, bring it on. (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone now sees your shame
How shall I end this?
Readability... (Score:5, Funny)
Larry Wall's language
is not obfuscatory.
Just need more coffee.
Re:Hailku defined? (Score:3, Funny)
In other words, perhaps...
Contest is a sham!
They don't define a haiku!
We're not mindreaders!
Re:My haiku actually does something (Score:5, Funny)
Missing opening bracket
And semicolon
Ultimate Haiku (Score:4, Funny)
Then seven, then five again
Blah, blah, fucking blah...
1337 haiku (Score:1, Funny)
h4x0r5 0n teh yu0r pC? [google.com]
ch3ck yu0r megahurtz
Re:fp.pl? (Score:1, Funny)
on the toilet i strain and grunt
unnnnnnf, plop. its PERL!
Re:the real contest (Score:3, Funny)
haikus; yours was the best, dude
Super Funny. End
Sub
close enough for vb
Damned haiku... (Score:5, Funny)
syllables ain't enough to
express a complete
Re:why perl should not be used to write software (Score:5, Funny)
In Perl, to do it. But all
Are unreadable.
Re:too hard (Score:5, Funny)
There once was a poet named Dan
Whose poetry just didnt Scan.
When asked why
Dan replied
"its because i try to fit as many words into the last line as I can"
Java Haiku (Score:5, Funny)
public static void main(String
args[]) { System.out.print(
"too much preamble " +
"this intro is so common " +
"why can't it be short? "
)}; }
}
Here (Score:5, Funny)
Perl compiler debugs you
Quick mention of summer
Re:the real contest (Score:2, Funny)
Perl runs just fine on Windows
Thank you anyway
only a VB programmer would think that (Score:4, Funny)
the comparison is loose
just like your mother
Troll?!?! (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe that's South African
For "really hard drugs"
Wow, we sow the seeds,
Then nature grows the seeds, and
Then we eat the seeds
What do we have here?
All of Ms Kendall's knickers
That need a good wash
Stickiest bogey
Made by Toxteth O'Grady
Of the USA
The world's stupidest
Bottom-burp is Vyvyan?
No, it says Rik here...
Crop rotation in
The 14th century was
Widespread after... John
And, for a limited time (because I'm at work), a haiku rendition of the theme song!
Once in a lifetime
Comes love like this; I need you,
And you me - you see?
The young ones, darling,
We're the young ones, and young ones
Shouldn't be afraid
To live, love, there's a
Song to be sung, we may not
Be young ones for long
Many many types (Score:5, Funny)
Taint checks I did ignore
Open shell command with bad pipe
My hard drive now gone
A happy haiku
Met a girl on chat
Perl script calls me when she's online
I will score soon now
And self-completing plus poetic Perl, Perl, do you use
To compile your own hai-kus
Regexps fun to abuse
Re:too hard (Score:3, Funny)
Re:too hard (Score:2, Funny)
There once was a man from Japan
Whose poems would rhyme but not scan.
When asked why this was
He said "It's because
I try to fit as many syllables into the last line of each poem as I possible can."
As for Haiku:
Hash - bang - path to Perl
Print words to screen: hello world
Camels hate winter.
There. The first two lines almost rhyme, it's 5-7-5, and I got a seasonal reference in the last line.
Re:too hard (Score:3, Funny)
whose limericks aren't worth a penny.
Her technique was sound,
but she always found
whenever she tried to write any
she'd end up with one line too many.
Re:only a VB programmer would think that (Score:5, Funny)
rots the true programmer's mind
study machine code
I hate Perl (Score:5, Funny)
punctuation factory
Result? Perl. Good Luck...
open bracket, bang
colon backslash asterisk
oops, forgot a quote
Finally, finished!
Undefined variable.
Camel book flies far.
How do I do this?
Answer: "Easy, just use perl"
Programmer gets punched.
Re:Right, bring it on. (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot is read in office
one must tpye fats, eh?