Haiku Haiku In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku. Previously called "hokku", haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century. In Japanese haiku a "kireji", or cutting word, typically appears at the end of one of the verse's three phrases. A "kireji" fills a role somewhat analogous to a "caesura" in classical western poetry or to a volta in sonnets. Depending on which cutting word is chosen, and its
History of Haiku (operating system) became self-hosting, which means Haiku can be built from within itself. On January 31, 2009, Haiku obtained a native GCC4 port; this allows modern applications, like Firefox 3, to be built on Haiku. On July 12, 2009, a first prototype version of the FreeBSD WLAN-Stack was ported to Haiku, enabling unencrypted WLAN connections as a first step. The first alpha release "Haiku R1/Alpha 1" has been released on September 14, 2009. On October 27, 2009, Haiku obtained Qt4 support via an external 3rd party port. The second alpha release ("Haiku R1/Alpha 2") was released on May 10, 2010. After having