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!"
More flaming (Score:5, Insightful)
Capital P E R L
not acceptable
Mmm, interpreted languages! (Score:5, Insightful)
C program runs so quickly
Perl not done by spring!
On the other hand...
Perl script written fast
Overflows still plague C code
After many moons.
Re:Haiki rules (Score:3, Insightful)
White noise buries the Line Noise
Why not APL ?
Re:why perl should not be used to write software (Score:1, Insightful)
does not inspire poetry
or the programmers
What other language
can be used to write websites,
shell scripts, and haiku?
Re:Right, bring it on. (Score:1, Insightful)
If any of this is untrue, please accept my deepest apologies. I don't know why I get so angry sometimes. Damn, I suck, too. I really have no business criticizing anyone else. I hate myself. I hope you can forgive me one day in a better world than this.
Thank you.
perl_parser.pl (Score:2, Insightful)
A language that can't
be reduced to BNF
just should not exist....
or
Algorithms vote
how to parse ambiguous
constructs! Why, oh why!?!
If you don't understand what I mean, try to write a program that parses the perl language itself. Apologies in advance for the massive head trauma.
The question is: (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, it's possible. (Score:4, Insightful)
Example (not mine):
#!/usr/bin/perl
$s = q<print "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\$s = q<$s>;\n$s\n";>;
print "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\$s = q<$s>;\n$s\n";
Gee, that makes my head hurt...
Good luck making a true 5-7-5 haiku out of that, though.