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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.

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  1. Why Not? by seriv · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perl Haiku pushes the limit of the excuse of "why not?" when it comes to wasting your time.

  2. more haiku by potpie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Haiku article. So many haiku replies. So predictable.

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  3. Re:This is the best one by snake_dad · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I like the Dishonorable Mentions even better...

    Name: Duane O'Brien
    Haiku:
    $my_args = shift;
    system("gcc $my_args");
    print "I prefer C\n";

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  4. Re:A Waste? by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Insightful
    but I kind of feel that people should spend more time enterprise-proofing their Open Source applications than crafting poetry into silly little code snippets that don't do anything of significance.
    At least they don't expect you to pay them for it - unlike the M$ 'tards who embedded a flight sim in excel.
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