Note from the Poet: Perl is a computer language that programmers are able to write poetry in, due to the large number of available commands. It's a game to try to write something that makes sense and also compiles. I've wanted to write some Perl poetry for years. This poem actually runs (and doesn't do anything).
#!/usr/bin/perl # The first need is to free ourselves of that worst form of contemporary obscurantism. -FAH # Perl code can be treacherously obfuscated. -Larry Wall, inventor of Perl for (each %western_democracies) { fork; if (require state) { FREEDOM::dump unless reverse; $socialism->$facism->$totalitarianism; $freedom=>$planning; while ($you != $me) { push @people, %minority_will; bind MEN, POLITICS; close $markets and unlink BUYER, SELLER; exit DEMOCRACY and bless SOCIALISM; }; do not sleep; do not wait && wait && wait until time; do alarm; do join my $cause, %values; do split /power/; listen YOU, EVERYONE or "serfdom"; } }
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