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It's not some magical thing. It's not a programming language like Perl, Java, or C++...

Hmm, obviously Perl poetry is plain text converted to Perl but how would I convert plain text to Java or C++? :-)

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What Perl poetry isn't.
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Feb 03, 2003 at 15:02 UTC
    Uh ... no. Perl poetry is not plain text converted to Perl. It's Perl given a context humans can interpret other than as a computer program. You can write Java poetry and C++ poetry. I'm not sure it would be as pretty, but it's do-able. (Heck, you can write ASM poetry, but I have no idea who would find that interesting. Still, people like piano-playing involving 2x4's ... it takes all types, I guess.)

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