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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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click on the link on the LHS and you get the Haikus IN perl.
Of course, no discussion of haikus and computers would be relevant these days without mentioning SPAM...
Haiku'da Been a Spam Filter
These are terrible haikus... these people should stick to programming, not poetry. It makes me cringe just thinking about them...
It's a common misconception that "haiku" means "5-7-5". This misconception is readily cleared up - see the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article in particular for a discussion, or the "How do you write a haiku?" part of the e2 writeup, which goes into detail in the distiction between Japanese haiku and English haiku and describes the innumerable subtle variations of the form.
That said, one of the best English haiku ever kind of abuses the system:
I told her and sheWas like, "oh, my god," and I
Was like, "oh, my god."
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.