Perl and Haiku

Perl and Haiku.
Are they made for each other?
Some answers have no questions.
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CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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Re: Perl and Haiku by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 06, 2009 at 11:20 UTC
Hey, I hate to rain on your haiku, but is it one? Isn't it 5-7-5 syllables? I get 7 syllables in your last line.... among other irregularities. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness	[reply]
Re^2: Perl and Haiku by CountZero (Bishop) on Mar 06, 2009 at 18:02 UTC
I never said I wrote a haiku. I see it more as a koan. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply]
Re^3: Perl and Haiku by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 06, 2009 at 18:32 UTC
*I never said I wrote a haiku.* F!#K! You are so clever.....laying a trap like that for us otherwise harmless sasquatches to point at. ++ extra points for making a " interactive-thru-time haiku", where our assumptions (deduced from the Title ), were proven wrong. Maybe we need a realtime game for this? I forgot, there is one...it's called the Chatterbox. :-) I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness	[reply]
Re^3: Perl and Haiku by Gavin (Archbishop) on Mar 06, 2009 at 19:02 UTC
Magic! For others like me who hadn't a clue what a Koan was	[reply]
Re^4: Perl and Haiku by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 06, 2009 at 19:08 UTC
Re^2: Perl and Haiku by Anonymous Monk on Mar 06, 2009 at 11:33 UTC
haikup says `Line 1 should be 5, is 4 Line 2 should be 7, is 7 Line 3 should be 5, is 7 Haiku is invalid` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Perl and Haiku by xyzzy (Pilgrim) on Mar 06, 2009 at 14:34 UTC
Does TIMTOWTDI not apply to haiku? If you want to get technical about it, iirc "real" haiku follow a slightly different syllable scheme, are in japanese, and have to be about nature Everything is true." "Even false things?" "Even false things are true" "How can that be?" "I dunno man, I didn't do it."	[reply]