RE: Techies and Haiku

There's something to be said for the comments about Perl's structure equaling Haiku, with the traditional terseness and requisite simplicity of a poem so short - but think about it for a moment. Haiku doesn't put any restriction on content (they don't even have to make sense :) but it's very restrictive on form with the syllable patterns and three-line limit. So really, Perl is more like freeform prose or lyric verse; Haiku is more like Python, because the structure is more important than the content.

Haiku enforces whitespace!

- Ozymandias

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RE: RE: Techies and Haiku by takshaka (Friar) on May 31, 2000 at 21:33 UTC
Mmm. Perhaps, then, Haiku is more like Fortran? I think not. Garden spider weaves elegant simplicity-- a Perl one-liner.	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: Techies and Haiku by Ozymandias (Hermit) on May 31, 2000 at 21:42 UTC
No, Fortran is like a sonnet - restrictive, stifling, old-fashioned, emotional, and (occaisionally) rhyming. I should know; I spent three years programming aerospace simulations in Fortran. <G> - Ozymandias	[reply]