Haiku, in its purest (?) form, deals with themes of nature, and usually involves some sort of contrast. More than a 5-7-5 syllabic scheme, it requires one to condense a contrasting idea into 17 syllables. That being said, anyone can write a 5-7-5 poem, and no one's going to tell them it's *not* haiku. It's easy to learn, and you can learn to write it as well, or as basic as you want. Perl is famous for allowing programmers to write some pretty amazing programs in a very small space. On the other hand, newcomers ( like myself ) can typically write programs that are 3 - 4 times larger than they need to be, and folks in the perl community don't scoff, they only offer suggestions. So perl allows all levels of coders to refine their style as much or as little as they want. Perhaps folks who look beyond the heuristics of a solution, and seek the most elegant solution are naturally drawn to a form of poetry that does for language what perl does for programming. I think Perl and Haiku both are geared toward providing the most from the least in their respective domains ( does that make any sense? )

In reply to RE: Techies and Haiku by barZion
in thread Techies and Haiku by cciulla

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.