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From: ogata@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (Jefferson Ogata)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: listen (a perl poem)
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Date: 14 Mar 91 11:38:14 GMT
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In article <63173@bbn.BBN.COM> kshetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline) writes:
|> In article <11666@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> sharon@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV 
|> (Sharon Hopkins) writes:
|> > APPEAL:
|> > 
|> > listen (please, please);
|> > 
|> >     open yourself, wide,
|> >         join (you, me),
|> >     connect (us,together),
|> 
|> Wonderful poem! I'm not familiar with perl, but I am a programmer (I do 
|> most
|> of my work in C). I found the effect produced by fitting your words and
|> thoughts to the syntax requirements of this language stunning.
|> 
|> -Kerry
|>  

Mee too. I thought it was really radically super cool. It set me
to thinking about what one could do writing poetical shell scripts
or awk programs. Perhaps dynamic poetry; even C programs....sort
of like the little vt100 files people make to do screen animation.

In fact, I was so intrigued by the form, I don't think I read the
poem very well! ;-)
--
Jefferson Ogata        	        ogata@cs.umd.edu
University Of Maryland          Department of Computer Science