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State of the Onion 7

Posted by michael on from the cry-cry-cry dept.

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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  1. In Soviet Russia... by cwernli · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Larry Wall is Ned Flanders. by mfh · · Score: 5, Funny

    The similiarities are beyond skin-deep

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    The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
    1. Re:Larry Wall is Ned Flanders. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  3. my favorite by squarefish · · Score: 3, Funny

    'state of the onion' address is here

    Boy, was this right on target or what?

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    Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
  4. Threat to Perl by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. IT Workers' Creed by tarsi210 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    --
    Blog,Twitter
  6. Oh, the humanity! by kars · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!
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    Take life easy: one bit at a time.
  7. Re:My experience by teromajusa · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  8. Re:Enough with the flames already by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  9. Hey, Larry... by Qbertino · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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    We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
  10. Re:State of the Onion by bhsurfer · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
    Groucho Marx
  11. Re:My experience by josephgrossberg · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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

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    Joe
    http://www.joegrossberg.com