Perl Haiku Contest Winners Announced

prostoalex writes "The ActiveState Perl Haiku Poetry Contest has ended. The results are in and here's the page with all the entries." Here's the original announcement.

A Waste?

[Amsterdam Vallon]

These were cute when they first came out, but I kind of feel that people should spend more time enterprise-proofing their Open Source applications than crafting poetry into silly little code snippets that don't do anything of significance.

If Microsoft did this, you would make fun of them. But since it's Perl, apparently it's OK.

Meanwhile, we've got Firebird, which crashes every 10 page loads, we've got GCC, which pales in comparison to Intel's compiler, and Linux *still* isn't desktop-ready for the future of home PC computing.

But that's OK, keep wasting our Open Source talent and man-months on these haiku contests. Yeah, that makes sense *sigh*.

Why Not?

[seriv]

Perl Haiku pushes the limit of the excuse of "why not?" when it comes to wasting your time.

more haiku

[potpie]

Haiku article. So many haiku replies. So predictable.

Re:This is the best one

[snake_dad]

I like the Dishonorable Mentions even better...

Name: Duane O'Brien
Haiku:
$my_args = shift;
system("gcc $my_args");
print "I prefer C\n";

Re:A Waste?

[Hognoxious]

but I kind of feel that people should spend more time enterprise-proofing their Open Source applications than crafting poetry into silly little code snippets that don't do anything of significance.

At least they don't expect you to pay them for it - unlike the M$ 'tards who embedded a flight sim in excel.