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Perl Haiku Contest Winners Announced

Posted by michael on from the adoring-perl-code-automagically-hurts-your-romance-chances dept.

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.

18 of 154 comments (clear)

  1. Re:A Waste? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Microsoft did this

    The winner would be:

    What day is today?
    Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Oh.
    It's Releasepatchday.

  2. Hmmmm, Haikus. by heironymouscoward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many perl haikus
    Many Slashdot visitors
    No response, it's down.

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    1. Re:Hmmmm, Haikus. by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mod parent funny
      Mod this post minus one troll
      Metamod unfair.

  3. This is the best one by Illissius · · Score: 4, Funny

    Name: John Cataldo
    Haiku:
    perl perl perl perl perl
    perl perl perl perl perl perl perl
    perl perl perl perl perl

    Heh.
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  4. Slashdot Haiku by PatrickThomson · · Score: 5, Funny

    I cannot create
    a haiku in time for the
    first post. Woe is me.

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    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.
  5. Here's a haiku for you! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let poets write poems
    Let coders write code
    Stay your path

    1. Re:Here's a haiku for you! by gentlewizard · · Score: 4, Funny

      coders are poets;
      code, strict as any sonnet
      compilers, judges

    2. Re:Here's a haiku for you! by Haeleth · · Score: 5, Funny

      sonnets are constrained
      not by syntax but by form
      show me rhyming perl

  6. while skimming... my fav by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I liked this one:

    Name: Albert Braun
    Haiku:

    my coworker thinks
    perl is something to laugh at
    it is not, smartass

  7. hmmm by re-Verse · · Score: 4, Funny

    i try to code perl
    but i am very stupid
    divide by zero

  8. Re:Why Not? by interiot · · Score: 4, Funny
    Posting to Slashdot about how others are wasting time is probably worse.

    (doh, wait a minute. don't tell anyone I posted this...)

  9. Re:Why? by Onikuma · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  10. A real haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My name is Chandeep
    IT pro from Bangalore
    I have your job now!

  11. My Thoughts by Sideshow+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read the article.
    Was not that interesting.
    Now, time for some porn.

  12. Re:Why? by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn if I know, dude.
    It may well be the challenge;
    Geeks are funny sorts.

    KFG

  13. My favorite: by TheTranceFan · · Score: 4, Funny
    By Duane O'Brien
    searching for treasure
    swimming deep beneath the C
    i'm diving for perl
  14. My favorite web 404 message by moonbeam · · Score: 5, Funny

    You step in the stream
    But the water has moved on
    The page is not here

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    ---- perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(1 15),10);'
  15. Winning was huge highpoint for me. by immanis · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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