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Perl Haiku Poetry Contest

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the unnatural-language-processing dept.

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!"

9 of 306 comments (clear)

  1. Perl is for sloppy coders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Haikus are so gay
    They are just shitty poems
    Invented by japs

  2. Perls before swine by ObviousGuy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sand in an oyster
    makes pearls. Idea in Lar-
    ry's head makes this crap.

    --
    I have been pwned because my /. password was too easy to guess.
  3. Help me out, I only have one line so far... by Clockwurk · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    perl is for faggots

  4. Here's the rest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Clockwurk loves to code in perl
    Therefore, he is gay

  5. perl is terrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    why use perl these days when you have significantly better alternatives such as ruby or python? i've personally never had any need to use perl again once switching to ruby.

  6. Zope by SlightOverdose · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    perl is getting old the ZODB has you python and zope own

  7. Zope by SlightOverdose · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    perl is getting old
    the ZODB has you
    python and zope own

  8. Yeah, right... by teknico · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Tell us why you love Perl.

    I can't.

    > Do you love Perl as much as we do?

    I hate it.

    > Then prove it with your passion, creativity, and wit!

    Go away.

  9. just read the words and numbers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    for i in range(10):
    print "perl isn't a language"
    print "but python is!"