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Poor subsitute for my poor coding skills

by robot_tourist (Hermit)
on Jan 11, 2005 at 14:26 UTC ( [id://421283]=poem: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

I was a tester in my previous job there were several months where my only programming was a bit of VB to help put step numbers in a Word doc. You need to think of the word haiku as the Japanese do, because there are 3 syllables: ha, i and ku.

Haiku in spring,
disused perl skills decaying.
Haiku next spring?

i.e. I was having withdrawal symptoms from coding and needed to express myself in a very ordered way.

How can you feel when you're made of steel? I am made of steel. I am the Robot Tourist.
Robot Tourist, by Ten Benson

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Re: Poor subsitute for my poor coding skills
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jan 11, 2005 at 22:04 UTC
    Nice haiku!

    Does anybody knows what "haiku" means in Japanese (I know what it is, but not what the word itself means)?

    One small comment: is it a "Perl poem"? It has some reference to Perl, but I thought that Perl poems were "poetic" scripts that compiled without error. (see the archetypical Black Perl or its Perl 5 update). See what Larry Wall himself wrote about it.

    There is even a website called The Black Perl, though it seems there is no link with Perl.

    Maybe you like to have Black Perl on a T-shirt? Here you see it "black-on-black".

    This is the Black Perl song by Porcupine Defense.

    CountZero

    "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

      Does anybody knows what "haiku" means in Japanese (I know what it is, but not what the word itself means)?

      Literally, 'amusement sentence', although I'd prefer to say 'amusing sentence' in English.
      hai: amusement (from Middle Chinese bəij, pha·j)
      ku: sentence (from Middle Chinese kuəh)

      --
      Rozallin J. Thompson

        Based on my own experience and eclectic education, "ku" means "verse" or "stanza". I've heard of "hai" being more "play" than "amusement", though the difference is somewhat ephemeral there and depends greatly upon context.

        Oddly enough, in application "haiku" has come to be less about amusement than about kensho (a zen buddhist term relating to an epiphanic moment of self-knowledge, similar to the more general enlightenment of satori). It has become a traditionally zen meditation in poetic form. Haiku typically involve imagery associated with nature.

        The senryu form has the same syllabic stanza layout as the haiku, but tends more to have its focus directed at human nature than nature in the more general sense, and senryu are often more "amusing" than haiku as well (even outright funny at times).

        Yes, I have spent entirely too much time thinking about stuff like this, and reading about it. The haiku is actually my favorite poetic form.

        print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
        - apotheon
        CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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