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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.

11 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.

    --
    Ceci n'est pas une signature
    1. Re:Hmmmm, Haikus. by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. 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.

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

    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.
  5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

    KFG

  9. 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

    --
    ---- perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(1 15),10);'
  10. 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