Haiku stimulated the writing of haiku in English. The Japanese-American scholar and translator Kenneth Yasuda published "The Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, with Selected Examples" in 1957. The book includes both translations from Japanese and original poems of his own in English, which had previously appeared in his book titled "A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems together with Original Haiku". In these books Yasuda presented a critical theory about haiku, to which he added comments on haiku poetry by early 20th-century poets and critics. His translations apply a 5–7–5 syllable count in English, with the first and
Haiku PackageInstaller Haiku PackageInstaller Haiku's Package Installer is a software installer for BeOS packages in PKG format. It provides an easy-to-use GUI that helps in fast package installation in Haiku. Haiku is a free and open-source operating system compatible with the now discontinued BeOS. It is normally launched when the user double clicks any supported file. No settings are required for the Package Installer. Haiku's Participation in Google Summer Of Code 2007 brought good results. One of the tasks assigned was the creation of an installer for .PKG files, which would serve Haiku as a replacement for the old SoftwareValet application.<ref name=http://www.beosnews.com/2007/04/26/softwarevalet-replacement-in-progress/