State of the Onion 7

chromatic writes "One of the highlights of every OSCON is Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion address, covering Perl, philosophy, linguistics, music, theology, science, and usually a few other things thrown in for good measure. His talk from OSCON 2003, State of the Onion 7, is now online."

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In Soviet Russia...

[cwernli]

Is Larry a slashdot regular ? :)

Now, some of you young folks are too steeped in postmodernism to know anything about postmodernism, so let's review. Postmodernism in its most vicious form started out with the notion that there exist various cultural constructs, or texts, or memes, that allow some human beings to oppress other human beings. Of course, in Soviet Russia it's the other way around. Which is why they managed to deconstruct themselves, I guess.

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets hope not. He's talking about the old (Old old, cold war old) quip that goes:

"Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's the other way around" Unknown, because I can't be bothered to find the quote to attribute it

"State of the Onion"?

[Prince_Ali]

Well... it isn't very funny anymore, and they have too many ads. I mean how many times can you read a story like "Local Man Proud of Coffee Cup Collection?"

State of the Onion

[Darth_brooks]

Funny, I saw no statements from T. Herman Zweibel regarding the state of The Onion...

Re:State of the Onion

[bhsurfer]

one of my favorites is the one on swearing, where he calls someone "...a pendulous-breasted mennonite wet nurse...". i still giggle when i think of that.

Larry Wall is Ned Flanders.

[mfh]

The similiarities are beyond skin-deep

Re:Larry Wall is Ned Flanders.

[Anonymous Coward]

No. (yes i know it's an old joke)

my favorite

[squarefish]

'state of the onion' address is here

Boy, was this right on target or what?

Threat to Perl

[Captain Large Face]

In his speech Wall referred to an attempt by Python to attempt to buy a high powered regular expression engine from a small African nation. This statement was later noted to be incorrect.

IT Workers' Creed

[tarsi210]

I still maintain that whoever wrote this MUST have worked in IT.

We the unwilling,
led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible
for the ungrateful.
We have done so much for so long with so little
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

Oh, the humanity!

[kars]

If you feed one of these diagrams to a black hole, it turns into a piece of spaghetti.

But let's not, and say we did.

For God's sake, give this man back his caffeine!

Re:My experience

[teromajusa]

Yeah, it does. Hard to follow at times, but very clever. Would you rather he just struted around the stage saying "developers developers developers"?

Re:Enough with the flames already

[Captain Large Face]

Just think how bad it could be. The next person to flame Mr. Wall gets to sit through a keynote speech by Steve Ballmer, complete with monkey dance.

Hey, Larry...

[Qbertino]

... I don't quite understand you but that's ok. Just please don't ever offer me anything of the stuff you smoke. :-)

Re:Ponie

[DataCannibal]

Ow Nahw i' ain't.
Oim a bleedin' norvener an' even Oi knahw i's twenny foiv quid
It comes comes from my Grandad taking me to the horse racing and to the bookies and explaining the intricacies of a yanky, three cross doubles and a cross treble and how to read a form book, when I was a nipper,
(Sorry about that pathetic attempt at phonetically spelling cockney)

Correction

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, Mother Teresa got a Nobel prize for being one of the most willing people on the face of the earth.

Wasn't that Tracy Lords?

Oh, sorry, I'm think of the Adult Film Best Actress Award...

Re:My experience

[josephgrossberg]

Would you rather he just struted around the stage saying "developers developers developers"?

Or "Give it up for me! Woooooooo!", a la Steve Ballmer.