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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. The current state of Perl: by pheared · · Score: 1, Funny

    Internal Server Error

    1. Re:The current state of Perl: by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

      Internal Server Error

      No worries, here's a link to the real state of the Onion for you.

      --
      "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. Screensavers by InsaneCreator · · Score: 1, Funny

    Through the use of various screensavers

    I hear that after the conference he was attacked by several members of ScreenPeace and PETS (People for Ethical Treatment of Screensavers).

  3. Re:Perl and software by gusgizmo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Holy crap, karma points are like crack. Seriously. I get one point and I start twitching. This cannot be healthy. . . can you buy karma?

  4. Re:I wish more people did this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean Linux Torvaldx himself?

  5. Re:I wish more people did this.. by keiferb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah? Be careful what you wish for. I'm sure RMS would gladly give a speech like this every week. =)

  6. Re:Was Larry Wall always insane by defile · · Score: 3, Funny

    Troll? But I meant "insane" as a compliment! :D

  7. Re:I wish more people did this.. by po_boy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linus doesn't seem to publish much like this annually, but the other ones are easy:

    Microsoft Annual Report
    Apple Annual Report (2003 doesn't seem to be available yet)
    Sun annual report

    FYI - they typically come out in the spring for the previous years. The SEC "encourages" that.

  8. Re:Perl and software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    PHP was originally a Perl application.

    It's kind of like when you get to the age where you're strong enough to beat up your dad!

  9. Re:Perl, it's the new COBOL by The+Unabageler · · Score: 2, Funny

    from my experience, it doesn't take much to make a java coder's head explode ;-)

    --
    perl -e '$_="\007/4`\cp%2,".chr(127);s/./"\"\\c$&\""/gees; print'