in reply to Perl and Haiku

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

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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

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      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
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      Magic!

      For others like me who hadn't a clue what a Koan was

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        If an event occurs in RAM, but no one is there to detect the event, did the event occur ? :-)

        I guess: NO the event did not change the RAM, as long as the RAM is still within operating specs? Some miniscule quark knows the event occurred....so it occurred....the question becomes "does the quark posess intelligence enough to detect it"..... I'm getting confused..:-)

        I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness
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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

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      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."
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