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Perl Haiku Poetry Contest
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!"
"Perl" not "PERL", bozo
Capital P E R L
not acceptable
I have been pwned because my
Autumn: perl script starts
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.
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
Snow falling on Perl
White noise buries the Line Noise
Why not APL ?
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.
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
Will any of these haikus people are writing be used for stopping spam? :P
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
It's called a quine, and it's something of an ubergeeky pastime.
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.
-- B.
This sig does in fact not have the property it claims not to have.