[comp.lang.perl] listen

sharon@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sharon Hopkins) (03/04/91)

Don't expect this to *do* anything:  I had a hard enough time just getting
it to parse in both perl and English!

#!/usr/bin/perl

APPEAL:

listen (please, please);

    open yourself, wide,
	join (you, me),
    connect (us,together),

tell me.

do something if distressed;
    
	@dawn, dance;
	@evening, sing;
	read (books,poems,stories) until peaceful;
	study if able;
    
	write me if-you-please;

sort your feelings, reset goals, seek (friends, family, anyone);

	    do not die (like this) if sin abounds;


keys (hidden), open locks, doors, tell secrets;
    do not, I-beg-you, close them, yet.

				accept (yourself, changes),
				bind (grief, despair);

    require truth, goodness if-you-will, each moment;


select (always), length-of-days



# Sharon Hopkins, Feb. 21, 1991

kshetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline) (03/12/91)

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
 

ogata@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (Jefferson Ogata) (03/14/91)

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