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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.
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If Microsoft did this
The winner would be:
What day is today?
Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Oh.
It's Releasepatchday.
Many perl haikus
Many Slashdot visitors
No response, it's down.
Ceci n'est pas une signature
First post whoo; I rule
Slashdot haiku should be next
Pointless post this
Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively.
I cannot create
a haiku in time for the
first post. Woe is me.
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
Let poets write poems
Let coders write code
Stay your path
he saw the link, then typed it out for the benefit of IE users.
wait...
I liked this one:
Name: Albert Braun
Haiku:
my coworker thinks
perl is something to laugh at
it is not, smartass
i try to code perl
but i am very stupid
divide by zero
(doh, wait a minute. don't tell anyone I posted this...)
Haiku is 31337
Or so Neil Stephenson wrote
So posers do Haiku
No good in English
Haiku is for Japaneese
In English it is...
Bad.
by CptChipJew (301983) on Thursday January 22, @11:24PM
(#8062958)
(Monday August 25, @03:56AM)
open(heart_to_perl);
content-type: haiku/firstpost;
or die "i fail it";
IMHO, he shoulda won. I was ROFL till the next day after seeing that one.
C|N>K
i suppose i should have inclided some line breaks in there...
I just don't get it.
What is this obsession of
Geeks and Haiku?
My name is Chandeep
IT pro from Bangalore
I have your job now!
Read the article.
Was not that interesting.
Now, time for some porn.
Damn if I know, dude.
It may well be the challenge;
Geeks are funny sorts.
KFG
Although I like Perl,
I am beginning to like
Python even more.
It's a very dark ride.
Perl's syntax screams out
"Kill me now, kill me quickly"
I use Python now
Preview button there
So you can review your post
And check for errors
Perl flame wars erupt
Socially inept coders
Yep, this is Slashdot
You step in the stream
But the water has moved on
The page is not here
---- perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(
One of my entries won 3rd place in the 'Written In Perl' category. I flipped out when I saw I had actually won. I figured the 'brute force of brainwashing/pestering the judges' was, at best, worth a mild chuckle. And I certainly thought all of my others were better. But I'm not one to argue.
I've been going on and on about it since Monday. Mostly because for me, it it means I have now unmistakably crossed the point of no return. I can no longer deny I am a geek. I can no longer even pretend to. But It's ok, I have come to terms.
best web host ever
This is so much fun
Haiku story on slashdot
Now we are poets
I thought it was asking for code as actually Haiku
;)
If they did that how would the judges be able to *read*
and *make sense* of the entries? Face it perl code just
looks like a bunch of random punctuation.
siggy played guitar
Silly slashdotter
You forgot to make your post
Into "Plain Old Text"
~To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. -Yann Martel
first attempt at rhyming perl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "fit for a duke or an earl";
while(10 == 5)
{print"This code is alive!";}
# and if that will not fly,
try {system "ls"} or die;
(OK so I cheated a little, see if you can do better)
I just don't get it. What is this obsession of Geeks and Haiku?
Slashdot and Haikus:
A match, like Spring and flowers.
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