Hello, fellow monks. This is my first original program and it is a basic haiku generator. I got the idea because we are doing poetry in school and I saw the poem thing by zentara and thought it would be cool.

use strict;

my @line1 = ('annoying sensei',
         'oh, young grasshopper',
         'dis-honourable',
         'you aburi brain'
            );

my @line2 = ('learn to run before you walk',
         'he thinks he knows everything',
         'insubordinate pupil',
        );

my @line3 = ('hey, wait a minute',
         'he must be senile',
         'he will face my wrath',
         'his brain is not well'
            );

print $line1[rand @line1], "\n";
print $line2[rand @line2], "\n";
print $line3[rand @line3], "\n";
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Seeing as this is my first program, if anyone could give me some pointers, that would be uber.

SOA, DOA, GOA, whatever,

hypknotizzed

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