Perl Haiku

For those of you who don't know, a Haiku is japanese poetry, which consists of 3 unrhyming lines, with 5, 7 and 5 syllables in each respectively.

shebang perl; use strict;
  foreach haiku (my $pen writes) {
      $pen=>writes(less_perl); last; }
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Re: Perl Haiku by mirod (Canon) on Dec 14, 2000 at 19:37 UTC
There have been several Perl Haiku contests (TPC 3, The Perl Journal), and even a module coy to replace `die` and `warn` with haikus (and it adds the `transcend` and `enlighten` functions. The module won the "Best Module" at TPC 3 and was written by the usual Damian Conway	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl Haiku by a (Friar) on Dec 18, 2000 at 09:27 UTC
Haikus should mention, reference, imply season (its cold here) somehow ... and by no means is D. Conway considerable as 'usual' ;-> a	[reply]
Re: Perl Haiku by turnstep (Parson) on Dec 14, 2000 at 21:48 UTC
There has also been more than a few on this site. Some (like mine) are easy to find as they have "haiku" in the title but most you have to dig through the poetry section for. The earliest "serious" one is Bare Errors.	[reply]
Re: Perl Haiku by Adam (Vicar) on Dec 15, 2000 at 01:54 UTC
Actually, a Haiku doesn't have to be 5-7-5, there are plenty of acceptable patterns that are considered Haiku. Besides, the definition of a Haiku is somewhat lost in the translation. I once posted an obfuscated Haiku, I think the last variation of it was here.	[reply]