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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In reply to What Perl poetry isn't. by dragonchild
in thread convert text to xml by wanadlan

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