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Larry Wall's State of the Onion 8

Posted by michael on from the layered-and-makes-you-cry dept.

zachlipton writes "Perl.com has posted Larry Wall's State of the Onion talk from this year's Open Source Convention and The Perl Conference. Through the use of various screensavers, Wall talks a bit about himself, and of course, Perl and Perl 6."

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  1. Perl and software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is perl used for anything besides system administration tasks? I mean, no one tries to write serious software with it, right?

  2. Speech similar to Perl, hard to understand by bigbinc · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I skimmed through the article, and like Perl, I couldnt understand what he was saying, it probably meant well, I guess. And with Perl-6, the name may have some hidden meaning, 2006 release.

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    ---- Berlin Brown http://www.newspiritcompany.
  3. Makes about as much sense as... by Spruce+Moose · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    George Bush's State of the Union speech.

  4. Re:Python is a reality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who cares about Python? If we wanted to discuss python we would have created a story about Python... If we wanted to discuss perl vs python we would have created a story about that.
    This is about perl and Larry!

  5. runs twice as slow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    shows that you can implement the Unix command line utilities in Perl and they run twice as slow.

  6. Re:Larry: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    we speak english around here, fuckface

  7. Re:Python is crap by Courageous · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's a bad idea. Even Guido doesn't like tabs. Really, you're supposed to use all spaces.

    C//