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Perl Haiku Poetry Contest

posted by Simon on 2004.01.23 6:53   

ActiveState writes "We are pleased to announce the ActiveState Perl Haiku Poetry Contest. Do you love Perl as much as we do? Then prove it with your passion, creativity, and wit!" ActiveState prizes and immortal fame await the winners; you've got until February 8th to get creative.

Update 2003-01-26 by ziggy: The Haiku contest is now open to everyone outside the US and Canada, too.

• Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:4, Informative)

  by ajt (2546) on 2004.01.23 8:40 (#27636) Homepage Journal

  Be aware that you need to be a resident of the USA or Canada, and aged over 18, according to the RULES [activestate.com].

  CONTEST PARTICIPANTS: The ActiveState Perl Haiku Contest (the “Contest”) is open to all individuals who are: (i) 18 years or older; and (ii) physically located in the United States or Canada(a “Qualified Individual”), except employees of ActiveState and their affiliates, their agents, and persons with whom they are domiciled.

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  -- "It's not magic, it's work..."

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  • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:2)

    by barryp (2829)

    Pity. There's a lot of great and good poets in the rest of the world! Sigh. --Paul (in Ireland).
    • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:2)

      by merlyn (47)

      Yeah, they'd probably sweep the contest too. This restriction is to make it possible for someone from America (north, and norther {grin}) to win.

      --
      

      • Randal L. Schwartz
      • Stonehenge
      • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:2)

        by barryp (2829)

        Of course that fact that I'm a dual national, Irish and Canadian (or should that be "Irish and Northerer"), still doesn't allow me to enter. And I was feeling very poetic and all! -Paul (still in Ireland).
        • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:2)

          by nicholas (3034)

          It also discriminates against potential poets who live in the US but are currently on active service overseas.
    • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:2)

      by KM (4)

      I could always ask the new folks doing TPJ if they would want me to do another Perl Poetry Contest. I didn't restrict people by country!
    • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:2)

      by Purdy (2383)

      Hard to feel pity when you live on the Emerald Isle ... lift a pint of Guiness for the not-so-lucky. ;)
  • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:4, Funny)

    by Damian (784) on 2004.01.23 16:01 (#27665)

    It's because they fear
    Perl haiku gurus from where
    Winter is summer.

    ;-)

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  • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:3, Interesting)

    by nicholas (3034)

    Curious. They appear to have changed that page and removed the "physically located..." clause. However, it's still copyright 2003.
    • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:2)

      by ajt (2546)

      How strange, I'm not going to complain. I don't know if my comments here and on Perlmonks [perlmonks.org] have had any effect, but it's nice of them to open up the competition a bit more.

      I suppose I'd better write a Hiaku now I've caused all this fuss...

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      -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
    • Re:Only if you live in Canada and USA (Score:2)

      by barryp (2829)

      Oh, man! Now I'll have to write something .... (reaches for pint of Guinness for "inspiration"). --Paul (in Ireland)
• Definition of haiku? (Score:1)

  by fxn (1338)

  I've read there's no consensus about what's a haiku in English. Do you know of any definition for this or previous contests? It seems there's none in ActiveState's page AFAICT.
  • Re:Definition of haiku? (Score:1)

    by fxn (1338)

    Just for the record, I finally wrote to ActiveState:

    • "valid program": It is not enough for Perl solutions to compile, they have to be executable in recent perls.
    • Metric: 3 verses with traditional 5-7-5.
  • Re:Definition of haiku? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by hanamaki (909)

    In most western languages a haiku is viewed as a poem with a 5-7-5 Syllable rythm written in three Lines.
    Japanese haiku are usually written in just one line and there does not exist a concept of syllable, but a 5-7-5 mora rythm. A mora is a phonetic unit of a specific length. E.g. "kyo" and "n" are both single mora in Japanese, therefore it takes exactly the same time to pronounce them. (Japanese is rather a mora timed language which tonal features, than a syllable based language.)