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ActiveState Perl Haiku Contest

Winners: Haikus about Perl

Grand Prize Winner
Name: Ed Snoeck
Haiku:

   ugliness that grows
   into beauty inside of
   your favorite shell

Second
Name: Jeffrey Welty
Haiku:

   Arbitrarily
   Nested structures for data;
   Joy of birds in flight.

Third
Name: Curtis Smith
Haiku:

   As with the spring rain
   Perl is indispensable
   Unquestionable

Dishonorable Mention
Name: Geoff Kuenning
Haiku:

   Unreadable code,
   Why would anyone use it?
   Learn a better way.

Entries: Haikus about Perl

Name: Jasvir Nagra
Haiku:

   sullen fsck platter
   tickled by a perl regexp
   lost music replays

Name: Jasvir Nagra
Haiku:

   Working overtime
   a handful of sigils
   reunites lovers

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Hot massage, warm nights
   a life spent in servitude
   Perl, webmistress, me

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Gloomy day; cops raid
   come to take love code away
   suicide with my Perl

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   See the morning sun?
   The parrots have come to rule
   Resistance has won!

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Weatherless matrix
   cubicle I.P. tyrants
   Perl will set me free

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Wise Sun says Python
   Perl Ruby Tcl PHP
   all tongues parrots speak

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Polyamorous
   seduces in many tongues
   Parrots love the spring

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Bonfires and warm nights
   Perl coders with social cause
   peace, love, and free all

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   A warm bonfire night
   Perl coders, Linux notebooks
   love, freedom for all

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Outdoor spring orgy
   Mating with queer fierce freedom
   Parrots and Gnu beasts

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Rainy days, boys gone
   coding with my period
   Perl: Geek Grrls best friend

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Spring, fall, seasons all
   wait, patience, sweet love shall come
   clear day of Perl 6

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Fight the evil SCO
   Fight the evil Microsoft
   Cool Perl by your side

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   See the morning sun?
   The parrots have come to rule
   Resistance Futile!

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Spring wakens Gnu beasts
   ponies pythons camels, with
   parrots abound free

Name: Abuzar Chaudhary
Haiku:

   Hear the Parrot roar
   Look up to clear heavens geek
   See the Parrot soar

Name: Dave Fischer
Haiku:

   Java object clouds
   the oyster opens brilliant
   an easy beauty

Name: Dave Fischer
Haiku:

   Former Reggie and
   reserved word that cleaves apart
   order from chaos

Name: Dave Fischer
Haiku:

   See Pan ponder all
   remarkable offerings
   gifts spring forth anew

Name: Roberto Nozaki
Haiku:

   Life was dark and confusing
   Turned green and amazing
   After PERL I started using

Name: Roberto Nozaki
Haiku:

   I am no fool
   Why? I tell you!
   PERL is my tool

Name: Roberto Nozaki
Haiku:

   Need no C, no VB
   'cause my precious PERL 
   I have with me

Name: Chris Angell
Haiku:

   Perl is addictive,
   Been coding for five days straight!
   I should go eat now.

Name: Matthew Musgrove
Haiku:

   Anything can be
   done even if it seems like
   it's impossible.

Name: duane o
Haiku:

   one hundred dos scripts
   one thousand config files
   managed by my perl

Name: duane o
Haiku:

   tr map eval 
   misunderstood underused
   like perl before swine

Name: duane o
Haiku:

   searching for treasure
   swimming deep beneath the C
   i'm diving for perl

Name: duane o
Haiku:

   valued as a gem
   to run perl without a shell
   perlapp is my friend

Name: Curtis Turner
Haiku:

   /usr/bin/perl
   not # ! /bin/sh
   no need to beat and bang.

Name: Jeffrey Welty
Haiku:

   O modular Perl
   For extensible reuse - 
   My love embedded.

Name: Jeffrey Welty
Haiku:

   Perl cultivation,
   Declaring lexical scopes - 
   Efficient blooming.

Name: David Kirschbaum
Haiku:

   "use strict;" by default
   Discipline the hackers lack.
   I am not afraid.

Name: David Wall
Haiku:

   a simple text file
   can be a powerful thing
   when written in Perl
If you want to be just another Perl hacker start learning Perl now
powerful programs Perl is glue for computers internet duct tape
playful programmer prodigiously produces Perl package power

Name: John Cataldo
Haiku:

   perl perl perl perl perl
   perl perl perl perl perl perl perl 
   perl perl perl perl perl 

Name: Tom Doan
Haiku:

   perl, my lovely perl, 
   thou hast massaged all my text.
   o enlightenment!

Name: Tom Doan
Haiku:

   perl is a prism
   through which chaos breeds order.
   perfection attained.

Name: Tom Doan
Haiku:

   needing a quick meal,
   i whip out my non-stick perl
   to cook spaghetti.

Name: Jeffrey Welty
Haiku:

   Search, match, and replace;
   Simple, efficient, parser - 
   Graceful language, Perl.

Name: Jeffrey Welty
Haiku:

   Love, recursively - 
   I need to say [Perl I love]* 
   Concatenations

Name: Kirk McCullough
Haiku:

   Palindromic script
   Does not show well against the
   Power of Duct Tape.

Name: Suman Manandhar
Haiku:

   One single semicolon
   A perfect drop of perliness 
   Rest is padding

Name: Japanese Perl
Haiku:

   I love Perl
   Because I love
   Many dollars.

Name: john saylor
Haiku:

   snow falls through space
   around the fortress's gates-
   perl's free form syntax

Name: Katsuwo Osaka
Haiku:

   percent
   escape word is
   same with.

Name: Katsuwo Osaka
Haiku:

   #/usr/bin/perl
   -w
   don't forget

Name: Allan Clarke
Haiku:

   my, our lovely Perl
   slurping, strict, purity. but,
   search not the ocean

Name: Katsuwo Osaka
Haiku:

   #/usr/bin/perl
   -w
   don't forget
   If your script
   use for Site.

Name: Fumihide Nario
Haiku:

   No one cannot find out.
   Everyone can use it.
   Perl can make us happy.

Name: Mario Lia
Haiku:

   i code perl all day
   at night, my dreams all the same
   pound signs plentiful

Name: Jeff Welty
Haiku:

   Economy bad,
   High-skilled, laid-off, showing sign - 
   I will code for foo.

Name: Jeff Welty
Haiku:

   Language of nature;
   Regular expressions find
   Like bees to flowers.

Name: Jeff Welty
Haiku:

   Coding late at night,
   Bugs infest inside and out - 
   You torment me now.

Name: Jeff Welty
Haiku:

   Errors everywhere,
   Debug my precious Perl code - 
   You are so sublime.

Name: Jeff Welty
Haiku:

   Watch a lotus bloom,
   Mind reflects in still water;
   Siblings, moon and perl.

Name: Jeff Welty
Haiku:

   Perl developers
   Unite and merge into one - 
   Sounds of the keyboard.

Name: Jeff Welty
Haiku:

   Perl blossom above;
   Celetial orb, come to  earth,
   Help me find my way.

Name: Reese Lloyd
Haiku:

   Quick Like A Bunny
   Does So Much With So Little
   Soon Will Rule The Earth

Name: Leo Gertsenshteyn
Haiku:

   A brook of data
   Briskly flows to parts unseen--
   Cash under toils in silence

Name: Curtis Smith
Haiku:

   Pliable, proven
   Practical and portable
   Preferrably Perl

Name: Justin Larue
Haiku:

   ...bloody perl haiku
   it's so addictive and fun
   I write too many

Name: Robert Peake
Haiku:

   variable world
   lexical scope provides hope
   use strict and like it

Name: Dabe Murphy
Haiku:

   Laziness saves time,
   Impatience makes us faster,
   Hubris gets us laid.

Name: Javier Isassi
Haiku:

   chase to get
   a Perl of wisdom
   Ready.
   Before you ask.

Name: Zachary McArtor
Haiku:

   network super glue
   I don't lose my mind
   running out of time

Name: Zachary McArtor
Haiku:

   Perly white syntax
   A linguistic masterpiece
   duct tape of the net

Name: Chris Deibler
Haiku:

   autumn of my code
   writer's block; sloth; fading fire
   CPAN, spring reborn

Name: Chris Deibler
Haiku:

   unfounded terror,
   stay thy hand, release the tab
   tokens mark my scope

Name: Kaaru Eravaldus
Haiku:

   I love Perl since I can write
   scripts at home under Linux
   that work at the office on Macs!

Name: Adam Barr
Haiku:

   where'd my input go
   used @ sign not $ sign
   darn that list context

Name: Avetik Topchyan
Haiku:

   hardest to learn - easiest to speak
   hardest to grasp - easiest to type
   tongue of the few 

Name: Ace Suares
Haiku:

   Haiku writ in Perl, or
   haiku written about Perl
   why would we care?

Name: Georg Buehler
Haiku:

   Easy things: easy.
   Difficult things: possible.
   This Perl is freedom!

Name: Joel Beaven
Haiku:

   It's fluid scripting,
   Text can be split at my will,
   The Camel I love.

Name: Daniel Horbatt
Haiku:

   Open Source Programming
   Observing closed source peers fret
   I am in code bliss

Name: Kees Cook
Haiku:

   I am thankful for "use strict"
   my syntax is good
   whoops, run-time error bit me

Name: Bill Webb
Haiku:

   Validate with Perl?
   There's a missing asterisk
   Haiku not required!

Name: Ben Schuler
Haiku:

   Miles of rope it has,
   Perl - the eclectic parser -
   to hang youself with

Name: Albert Braun
Haiku:

   my coworker thinks
   perl is something to laugh at
   it is not, smartass

Name: mike Badger
Haiku:

   So you use Excel
   But your CAD data needs tweeked.
   Time to parse with Perl?

Name: mike Badger
Haiku:

   My Technicians grip
   Too much data from their tests.
   Shall I write a script?

Name: Thomas Guerin
Haiku:

   Like swans glide to lake
   Programmers to Perl awake
   Life of peace begins

Name: James Van
Haiku:

   facing a deadline
   coding on a winter night
   I should have used Perl

Name: mike Badger
Haiku:

   Script Cats out in Mirc 
   They spam my channel too much
   Fight back with Perl

Name: Justin Larue
Haiku:

   loop through the file
   regex out all the data
   where does it all go?

Name: Justin Larue
Haiku:

   use require my
   sub next last break continue
   hope it terminates

Name: Justin Larue
Haiku:

   pretty bits of code
   wrapped up in puncutation
   like an oyster's "perl"

Name: Justin Larue
Haiku:

   hashbang line goes here
   defenitions and program
   document with pod

Name: Mark Hazen
Haiku:

   Code executing,
   but nothing to show for it;
   I'm flushed; buffers aren't.

Name: Corey Parsons
Haiku:

   Perl – efficiency,
   And Precision – where data 
   Becomes information

Name: Bill Bennett
Haiku:

   In early darkness
   Heavy deadlines portend the dawn
   Language helps, not hinders

Name: Mike Badger
Haiku:

   Entry in Contest
   Will Perl be used to judge?
   $entry eq $me;

Name: Corey Parsons
Haiku:

   An arduous task
   Perl comes to the rescue
   The boss is happy
Firewall logs to parse Network abuse suspected The culprit is found
Large database for Account administration Perl handles it well

Name: John Drummond
Haiku:

   Cherry blossoms fall,
   servers self-administrate,
   and admins can smile.
perl dash w See: program syntax OK Feel: accomplishment
Even I got packed in a distro; used Perl and imagination
Need to make sense of a bunch of gobbledygook? It's a job for Perl!
Okay I'm done now; I could type these all day, but some poor soul must read.

Name: Katrina Gressett
Haiku:

   Perl you may be terse,
   my algorithms want you.
   Briefly together.

Name: Katrina Gressett
Haiku:

   Perl, fast as lightning.
   So few lines of code for that.
   It's already done!

Name: Mike Fowler
Haiku:

   Dancing fingers flash
   Create magic from the void
   The wonder is Perl

Name: Katrina Gressett
Haiku:

   A Perl on the shore.
   I coded the beach and waves.
   In just a few lines.

Name: Bill Newton
Haiku:

   oyster meet camel
   Sweet love, take beautiful shape
   No need for an A.

Name: paul thompson
Haiku:

   The guru is vague
   "Many paths your code can take"
   You know Tim Toady?

Name: Katrina Gressett
Haiku:

   Five ways to code it.
   Which is my favorite way?
   Perl is the best for choices.

Name: Katrina Gressett
Haiku:

   Six lines of Perl code
   or triple that in C code.
   My choice is easy.

Name: Sam Kolb
Haiku:

   placid oyster yields
   a gui mess before swine
   Tcl's my fancy

Name: Katrina Gressett
Haiku:

   Semicolon ends
   my line of Perl code genius.
   ACK! I forgot one.

Name: Katrina Gressett
Haiku:

   The camel spits whilst
   I write another regex.
   Perl equals magic.

Name: Michael Hinckley
Haiku:

   Clarifying lense 
   so murky and disturbing
   turns rainbow to light!

Name: Stuart Whitmore
Haiku:

   Perl gives me freedom,
   easy learning, speed; aiding
   productivity.

Name: Amir Karger
Haiku:

   Impatient camel
   Lazily spits out code pearls.
   True Hubris drives him.
It's post-modern! Better code gets written when There's More Than One Way.

Name: Albert Williams
Haiku:

   open FILE theways
   while FILE HowDoILoveCount
   print Perl pays the bills

Name: Velorek Fs
Haiku:

   Words of accurate beauty
   Shinning out the truth
   of a stubborn flexibility

Name: Steve Joiner
Haiku:

   I write code in Perl,
   Noone else understands it.
   Job security!

Name: Miles Alan
Haiku:

   "Perl is elegant":
   A regular expression
   Of simplicity

Name: Brian Cooke
Haiku:

   In the frigid days
   Were only ones and zeroes
   We have Perl--it's Spring

Name: Scott Kelly
Haiku:

   When the Bubble burst
   Common Gateway Interface
   Paid my power bill

Name: Dave Newton
Haiku:

   many many ways
   to do what you want to do
   obfuscated code

Name: Scott Baxter
Haiku:

   Red leaves fall down
   The song birds leave this place
   Perl runs without trace

Name: Troy Crews
Haiku:

   The camel taught me
   Parsing text is much more fun
   Than using VB!

Name: Matt Sanford
Haiku:

   diving deep for gems
   surfaced with enlightenment
   Perl for the masses
from fingers to screen from camels to Komodos let perl be your guide
the source code is free from you the code flows quickly your state is active
open-source and fast faster than a speeding camel quickly changing you

Name: Neil Bruce
Haiku:

   Shellfish can't parse text?
   No regular expressions.
   Oyster without perl!

Name: Scott Baxter
Haiku:

   On the Internet
   my Perl code proliferates.
   It is good to share.

Name: andrea gradidge
Haiku:

   so nimble-fingered
   the pale diver holds a prize :
   perfection of Perl

Name: Pavel Aubuchon
Haiku:

   My friend in dark times
   Filthy, Stinky, Fat, C code
   parse text, my precioussss

Name: Tim Buck
Haiku:

   Powerful as C
   And readable as PostScript
   Zawinski on Perl

Name: Scott Baxter
Haiku:

   To Help my users
   I write CGI in perl
   They are now happy

Name: Kabir Ahuja
Haiku:

   a semicolon
   another line ends in the
   dance of the camel

Name: James Boyer
Haiku:

   Perl is code, just code.
   Can a life exist in code?
   Code is life, no less.

Name: David del Rio
Haiku:

   What mollusk bore thee?
   Slash-user-slash-bin-slash-perl.
   Be free from thine shell.

Name: jeff putnam
Haiku:

   Snow falling on Perl - 
   White noise covering line noise - 
   Hides all the bugs too 

Name: John Lewis
Haiku:

   pound sign hides my love
   later maintainers keep hack
   users never know

Name: Ed Donahue
Haiku:

   I don't care about
   your complicated data,
   I'll automate it

Name: Joshua Megerman
Haiku:

   Programming in Perl
   Is like programming in C
   But much easier

Name: Scott Baxter
Haiku:

   Sophos Active State
   asks me to write my Perl love;
   Not enough room here

Name: brian ashland
Haiku:

   In a corner room
   Bleak light illumines a perl.
   Spring in winter's rage.

Name: Zachary McArtor
Haiku:

   glourious eval
   program purity constant
   isolate taint

Name: Jeff Finn
Haiku:

   elegant coding
   and obfuscation contests
   are why i like perl

Name: Martin M
Haiku:

   Perl in a Shell
   Shells be afraid
   The Water is cold

Name: Alec Heller
Haiku:

   As my pipeline fills,
   and each line is munged, I print
   dollar underscore

Name: pierre Landanger
Haiku:

   Perl is tiny, sweety and lovely.
   Life is Perly

Name: Zachary McArtor
Haiku:

   trinity of types
   save me from data type hell
   simplify me again

Name: Zachary McArtor
Haiku:

   The one true language
   I pray while facing CPAN
   apostles use strict

Name: Jeffrey Dunitz
Haiku:

   small pearls of wisdom
   translate into handy code
   let's get the job done

Name: Andy Harrison
Haiku:

   of dromedary
   and of the practical type
   each a camels face

Name: Jeffrey Dunitz
Haiku:

   flexible syntax
   frustrates traditionalists
   not one way, but more

Name: Zachary McArtor
Haiku:

   lost in data types
   camel carries me along
   oasis of love

Name: Shaolin Tiger
Haiku:

   Three lines for the comp 
   But how many syllables? 
   Vague rules don't suite geeks 

Name: Zachary McArtor
Haiku:

   $caler simplified
   Perl beauty in thine eyes
   %Hashed out hypnotized

Name: Evan Agee
Haiku:

   With Perl in my life
   I will need none other. none.
   You complete my life
   
   RegExp all day long
   never feeling guilty, no -
   need it? Yes I do.
   
   Oh my little Perl
   So unknown yet so loved, Perl
   Will she ever shine?

Name: Graham Innocent
Haiku:

   Hash Bang Slash, begin! 
   With such struggle, do we tame 
   the wild Unix box

Name: Bob Davis
Haiku:

   If I could write perl
   i'd write perl like no one else
   if a pearl i write

Name: Bill Schmell
Haiku:

   I like perl
   Makes body strong
   Too bad I have no ding dong.

Name: Ron Svedersky
Haiku:

   Sitting at my desk,
   managing too many text files.
   Perl makes it easy.
(Alternate last lines: Thank God there is Perl. Thank God for Larry.)

Name: John Cataldo
Haiku:

   I once knew this programmer, Sue
   She loved Perl right through and through
   Poetry, though
   She just didn't know
   I bet she'd probably love this Haiku!

Name: Phil Rodgers
Haiku:

   Perl outshines .NET;
   no obfuscator's needed
   to protect the source

Name: Kent Tegels
Haiku:

   Perl makes my life easy,
   Even works in MS Windows,
   such purgatory.

Name: James Raiher
Haiku:

   while on this dark earth
   dot pl is comforting
   and ever after

Name: c crawford
Haiku:

   googol
   Your vastness
   so many different ways
   Lovely

Name: Luis Carlos Bethancourt
Haiku:

   back tic all the love
   open arms to the sunhine
   envy the pound signs

Name: Robert Geiger
Haiku:

   I hear the symbols
   so loudly I want to scream
   Perl is not Python

Name: Joey Gibson
Haiku:

   Looking like Line Noise
   I write code with Abandon
   None may comprehend

Name: DZ Jay
Haiku:

   Easy are the simple things
   Hard things possible?
   the answer is TIMTOWTDI.

Name: Juan Cuellar
Haiku:

   The contest closed
   The tear falled
   The camel cried

Name: DZ Jay
Haiku:

   Complex project, deadline looming
   Swift and terse rides
   The camel to victory.

Name: Karl Koelbel
Haiku:

   Content strings parsing
   smooth as the wind, with thine grace
   and tranquility.

Name: Andrew Pullin
Haiku:

   Perl of the Camel,
   Duct Tape of the Internet,
   Great is Larry Wall.

Name: Lucas Pfaff
Haiku:

   When I try to read
   Regular Expressions My
   eyes bleed profusely

Name: Chris Deibler
Haiku:

   consumed by text snake
   vars wear no clothes; is that mine?
   or is it syntax?

Name: Robert Hicks
Haiku:

   Project still going?
   My project is finished now.
   I really love Perl.

Name: Chris Deibler
Haiku:

   Perl loss grasps heartstrings
   python bites; ruby eccentric
   bringing fell winter

Name: Stephen Thomson
Haiku:

   cursor springs forward
   followed by a string of Perl
   programming is art

Name: Carl Mankinen
Haiku:

   For streams it's best
   in a hash, regex is run
   battles are won

Name: Anne Marie Tobias
Haiku:

   correspondence born
   Regex my raw data stream
   find my truth in PERL

Name: Anne Marie Tobias
Haiku:

   facing Gordian Knots
   PERL brings many blades to bear
   cutting like Swiss steel

Name: Anne Marie Tobias
Haiku:

   I shuck sweet oysters
   break shell to find code
   gladly I find PERL

Name: david hardne
Haiku:

   Many things to to 
   Many ways to do them too
   How will i proceed?

Name: John Krahn
Haiku:

   use Perl;
   program
   fulfillment

Name: Rachael Stanton
Haiku:

   so much rope to hang
   yourself around the neck with.
   freedom is sublime

Name: pekka korte
Haiku:

   perfect is my code
   white as snow or perly tooth,
   written with much love 

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   I select the best
   language for each task I have.
   It is always Perl.

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   Perl is Garcia,
   Watson, Cooder and Gatton
   all rolled into one.

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   Just as Java is
   a clunky beast of burden
   so is Perl a dove.

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   When asked 'What's Perl for?'
   I say 'Don't ask that question,
   learn Perl 5 instead.'

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   When I first started
   I wrote Perl that looked like C
   Now I just write Perl

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   Every Haiku
   may be written in three lines
   But Perl needs just two

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   I need not assign
   undef to a new 'my' var
   Yet assign I do

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   Surely this poem
   will win the Haiku Contest
   if it mentions Perl.

Name: James Mayfield
Haiku:

   The contest is apt
   Since Haiku is much like Perl:
   Oddly compelling

Name: Robert Ferguson
Haiku:

   A subtle whisper?
   No, behold the strength of Perl!
   Freedom in a line

Name: Bongo Bob
Haiku:

   A mixed up language
   entwines my confused head-mind
   why not use python?

Name: Mark Maslow
Haiku:

   If the morning shine 
   beaming out from monochrome
   is translucent... PERL 
To learn the game Go Takes moments. To master, years. As it is with PERL
Shorter than a star shooting across the fall sky. Dreams of PERL tk
PERL lives a shy life sharing a bin with Oscar letting usrs free
I remember my first MainLoop statement. so young she waits for me still
slash usr slash bin slash perl space dash w The heart of the art.

Name: aaron paushter
Haiku:

   ingenius syntax
   cgi to the extreme
   subtle dignity

Name: Tyler Aviss
Haiku:

   Perl, Perl, do you use
   To compile your own hai-kus
   Regexps fun to abuse

Name: Kevin Landry
Haiku:

   the regex beauty,
   solve your problems in realtime,
   write fast run any place.

Name: Peter Noyes
Haiku:

   Dreaming in a daze
   Of regular expressions
   Coaxes me to sleep

Name: Will Preston
Haiku:

   late at night I dream
   of types eating my elbow
   when I wake, I PERL

Name: Randy Muller
Haiku:

   Chewing on the text
   with regular expressions
   I munch happily
Moving lots of text Variables spring to life I make a new thing
Winter turns to spring Old dead text takes on new life A thing of beauty

Name: Will Preston
Haiku:

   easy to find bliss
   within the confines of PERL
   just don't fork while true

Name: Will Preston
Haiku:

   of all the choices
   one is abundantly clear
   as the best... it's PERL!

Name: Dan Kane
Haiku:

   For automation,
   A program would be too much
   All I need is Perl

Name: Joe Oppegaard
Haiku:

   Data munging dream
   What is near the oasis?
   A bright white camel!

Name: Shane Ladd
Haiku:

   Perl is fine and good
   But make sure your girlfriend knows
   It's not Helzberg's kind

Name: Shane Sligh
Haiku:

   Thank God Larry made
   the Internet super glue
   we all know as Perl

Name: Joseph Haga
Haiku:

   life free you
   you can achieve great things
   you free life

Name: jeff putnam
Haiku:

   There's more than one way 
   In Perl, to do it.  But all
   are unreadable.

Name: Steffen L Norgren
Haiku:

   old perl releases
   grave security issue
   buffer overruns

Name: Ryan Elisei
Haiku:

   Larry Wall envisions
   staring at the ceiling
   digital duct-tape

Name: William Wallace
Haiku:

   Perl comes to your door
   Swift,speaks so little,but means
   More than you can know

Name: Alan Davidson
Haiku:

   Perlmongers are
   The elite among coders:
   Knowing the divine.

Name: Marcel VanDalfsen
Haiku:

   Just in - SCO owns Perl,
   so says Darl "Cowboy" McBride.
   Buy a license now.

Name: Douglas Bell
Haiku:

   Free, fast, and simple
   Wish I has a chick like that
   The wind cries Larry

Name: Marcel VanDalfsen
Haiku:

   For a fresh new start-
   go to slash as sysadmin
   and use unlink star

Name: Brad Endsley
Haiku:

   "use strict;" by default
   Discipline the hackers lack.
   I am not afraid.

Name: Alan Davidson
Haiku:

   O, Perl, thou hast been
   A grace upon my website.
   Frabjous CGI!

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   I sure am sorry
   If I was sorry before
   I should have quit this

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   Perl is teh sexorz
   That means sexy in ?stupid?
   Forums are for chumps

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   We are several apes
   We use tree as computer
   We Cobol, sorry

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   This is Internet
   I have instructions for you
   You will use Perl now

Name: Alan Davidson
Haiku:

   Tantalizing script
   Versatile yet powerful
   Hard to code in, though 

Name: Richard Fromage
Haiku:

   He don't know 'bout Perl
   other than as a necklace.

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   My cat is named Perl
   My cat maybe a language
   A language named Perl

Name: Alan Davidson
Haiku:

   Perl is the language
   That makes the 'Net so useful,
   Best of all the scripts.

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   Perl is like napalm
   I rub it all over me
   Wait, that is lotion

Name: John Hall
Haiku:

   consistency belongs
   in fiber supplement ads
   perl makes life good

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   Perl is for dinner
   Perl is good for great justice
   I don?t understand

Name: Trevor Joerges
Haiku:

   blessing in disguise
   a true virtue in our lives
   there is no reprise

Name: Chris Knight
Haiku:

   My life forever
   Altered beyond description
   By three simple lines

Name: callum prentice
Haiku:

   portable free solution
   life without it brings tears
   thank you larry

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   Perl is about love
   It touches me while I sleep
   I can?t make it stop

Name: Paul E
Haiku:

   Perl is delicious
   It is made out of candy
   It burns when I pee

Name: Jeremy Rodgers
Haiku:

   perls are like gems
   darwin can't make a mistake
   with perl we win

Name: Emile Bourquin
Haiku:

   Zen of coding style
   Terse yet strong, glue of the web
   You do my bidding

Name: David Levin
Haiku:

   Shuttle ops galore.
   Who is the real loser here?
   Future bug fixers.
   
   Some fool wrote you, script.
   And who's the bug fixer?  Me.
   Why can't I read you?
   
   Ah, understanding.
   Within double references
   There's enlightenment.

Name: Mark Reid
Haiku:

   Dollar-underscore.
   It always contains answers.
   Right or wrong: who knows?

Name: Mark Stanislav
Haiku:

   Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
   The Premier Essence of Rocking Linux Scripting
   Parsing Enhancing and Refining Logs

Name: Stu Selthun
Haiku:

   I'm a perlhack and
   I'm OK. I code all night
   Moon lake, ice wind, shine.

Name: Jamie Zawinski
Haiku:

   The line noise of perl
   fills me with terrible pain
   cherry blossoms fall

Name: Jason Santos
Haiku:

   Thank You, Randal Schwartz
   Just Another Perl Hacker
   Enlightened Us All

Name: J Koebel
Haiku:

   Perl universal
   Confusion within abounds
   Powerful system

Name: Mark Reid
Haiku:

   In crunching text files,
   it surpasses all others.
   Just try it with C!

Name: Robert Kozachek
Haiku:

   perl white like snow screen
   code falls making tapping sound
   beauty without error

Name: Nathan Bessette
Haiku:

   no time for alarm?
   dump last package; join our flock
   do accept sleep, stat!

Name: Matthew Musgrove
Haiku:

   Natural language,
   Programs are written with ease;
   Beautiful design.

Name: Matthew Musgrove
Haiku:

   Elegant, simple,
   and powerful enough to
   do most things with ease.

Name: Richard Wells
Haiku:

   Ship of the desert
   Unlikely mascot of geeks
   Come back again soon



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