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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!"
open(heart_to_perl);
content-type: haiku/firstpost;
or die "i fail it";
Vonal Declosion
Damn CLPM
I just wanted to know how
to run CGI
I have been pwned because my
"Perl" not "PERL", bozo
Capital P E R L
not acceptable
I have been pwned because my
Haiku deluge
Slashdot posts again
Now I am scared
Purl Gurl, Gozilla
Same person behind the name
Uri, do you care?
I have been pwned because my
if you were a real perl hacker, your script would be one line and generate its own haikus.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
haiku is too hard
i can never remember
how many syllables you are supposed to put in each line
IIRC Perl poetry does not need to be valid Perl, let alone have an interesting effect, but merely interesting English that happens to use only Perl keywords.
I've almost got a winner but what I really need to know, is how many syllables are there in: $_=~/[a-z]['")]*[.!?]+['")]*\s/g)
Larry Wall made Perl
See the State of the Onion
Go to Wall.org
Vonal Declosion
Perl Perl Perl Perl Perl
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.
This post patent pending.
Larry is funny
His humor is real nerdy
But still, he's married
Vonal Declosion
A language you say?
Doubtful, gibberish perhaps.
Debugging, -> brain fail.
Wrote a script in May
The damn program broke today
Can't grok my own code
I have been pwned because my
absurd elephantine interpreter
each version incompatible with the last
god how i luv it
while S T D IN
print dollar sign underscore
close curly bracket
foreach keys %problems
delete $problems{$_}
Life should work like that
Java: the bastard demon spawn of C++ and Ada
This post is timely!
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.
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.
Here's what the Oxford Dictionary folk have to say:
The Japanese haiku must include kigo (season word). This is a convention in the Japanese art of haiku. But English haiku has no such word. Moreover, composers of English haiku are not required to strictly observe the 17 syllable rule. The Japanese haiku is written in a single line, but the English haiku is divided into three lines.
It would have been nice if their rules could have had some tips for pedants like me. Do they demand 5/7/5? I am guessing not. If they wanted to get all traditional on our asses they could demand 17 kanji symbols, and I don't know how you can code:in Kanji.
With all the Haiku posts, I decided to head off to google and see what actually makes Haiku. My feeling was the 5-7-5 plus indication of a season.
Seems that I am slightly wrong. The 5-7-5 syllabal grouping is accepted to be a Japanese convention where those breaks match the structure of that language. In other languages the the 5-7-5 doesn't fit as well, so you seem to be able to do what you want.
Also the Haiku is generally considered to be an expression of direct experience with out attached emotion. So similie, metaphor and anthropomorphism do not see, to be well regarded.
Two links that I just found and read are:
The definition of Haiku by Alexey Andreyev.
Another Attempt To Define Haiku by Jane Reichhold.
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Is there another word for synonym??
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
One 'l' in Randal
Like there's one 'l' in Larry
RTFM, Newb.
I have been pwned because my
My entry for this contest will be in iambic pentameter. And they better accept it because, in Perl, there is always more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall's language
is not obfuscatory.
Just need more coffee.
Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks: temporary loans from the Public Domain, not real property ("intellectual" or otherwise)
First five syllables
Then seven, then five again
Blah, blah, fucking blah...
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
sometimes seventeen
syllables ain't enough to
express a complete
I have a girlfriend whose name doesn't end in
public class Haiku {
public static void main(String
args[]) { System.out.print(
"too much preamble " +
"this intro is so common " +
"why can't it be short? "
)}; }
}
In Soviet Russia
Perl compiler debugs you
Quick mention of summer
perl and PHP?
the comparison is loose
just like your mother
physically located in the United States or Canada (a "Qualified Individual")
eh.
class he-man extends man!
The mod points say "troll"?
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
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
Hmmm. A sad haiku?
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
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.
use strict; use warnings;
my $haiku_lists_itself; print
`cat $0`
Here's a real challenge:
Write a self-listing haiku
without such "cheating."
Is it possible?
I have no idea of how.
I would guess it's not.
Will any of these haikus people are writing be used for stopping spam? :P
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
Yes, it should contain a kigo, a season-related word with specific connotations (the seasonal connection is often pretty obscure). This is the biggest problem with haiku in English -- there are no kigo. Some people have suggested that a strong word should be picked to fill the role of the kigo in an English haiku.
Actually, the kigo and the kiri -- a pause that comes usually but not always after the 5th or 13th beat -- are perhaps more characteristic of haiku than the 5-7-5, which is broken quite often even in the classics. Bashou-style haiku (the most classical) are also characterized by a rigid focus on direct experience -- NO metaphors, NO emotions. Other haiku poets (haijin) took haiku in other directions -- notably Issa, who wrote one of my favorites:
Useless clouds...
Piling up into a useless mountain
And then doing it _again_.
It seems to lose a bit in my (sucky) translation. There should be a contest.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
The point here being that after the first two lines the reader would have assumed that is was summer, and made a mental image in green and blue summer colors, but after the last line, he has to revise that picture radically. (My own sucky translation of my faulty recollection of the Swedish translation of the originally Japanese haiku, so please don't take the example as such too seriously, but it illustrates the point, anyway.)
In a way it works a bit like a joke: first you set something up, and then, at the end, you deliver the punch line.
And this of course makes it more interesting to try to write haikus, because no matter how you count your syllables, you really don't have an awful lot of them to achieve all of that.!
Christian Engström, Former Member of the European Parliament 2009-2014 for The Pirate Party, Sweden
Big explosion in
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.
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
If you have read Cryptonomicron by Neal Stephenson, you'll notice that all of the haiku included contain the kigo as well.
Is Perl syllable or stress timed?
Haikus only really work with syllable timed languages. Having said this, US Perl is probably less strongly stressed than other Perls. Perhaps, there could be a Perl limerick contest for those whose Perl is more strongly stressed?
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.
use 5; use strict 'subs';
study $ARG; for (;time = defined;) {}
do{ not (wait or sleep) };