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State of the Onion 9

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the straight-from-the-camel's-mouth dept.

chromatic writes "Perl.com has just published Larry Wall's Ninth Annual State of the Onion address from OSCON 2005. In previous talks, he's used screensavers, music, and Unicode to explore Perl and open source. This year, he introduced the cast of characters in the Perl community in terms of spy movies and metaphors."

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  1. Could it have been any more boring? by xquark · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm serious, where is the talent in discussing OSS these days...

    Arash

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  2. From the article by WilliamSChips · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If I were making an evil language, I wouldn't call it Python.
    I'd call it Perl. Or perhaps Ruby. ;)
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  3. Re:Screensavers, music, and Unicode? by Lumpy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    who cares. PHP has surpassed perl by leaps and bounds. Perl needs to go backwards. it needs to be cleaned up and tightened down. Perl really needs to become the scripting language for embedded devices. That is where it could really shine.

    Unfortunately it's bloatware now. Perl is a nightmare and large projects based on perl are even scarier.. (look at the web portal metadot... omfg that is a horrible bastardization) you need to take 10 times the number of steps to do something in Perl than what you need to do in php or python.

    Dont get me wrong, I loved perl, it was my first love and still holds a place in my heart. but it has languashed and grew too big for it's britches.

    It really needs Larry to take a good look at it and gut it hard and fast.

    Unfortunately by the time it happens PHP and python will be bloated as perl and ruby will be the new hotness that everyone is turning to because it will have hit the useability/size/performace pivot table point that pushed php and python to the top today.

    I loved perl, I really do not like what happened to it and what direction it is heading in.

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  4. I don't get it by idlake · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sorry, I neither get the state of the onion, nor do I get Perl. I'm just writing a lot of Perl code again, and while the coverage of the libraries is stellar, the language itself is a constant source of irritation for me.

  5. Re:And every year by millennial · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did someone get less than the requisite number of hugs as a child? Seriously, what is the motivation for this sort of thing? Does it have to do with John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory? Or does it just entertain you to be a total dick?

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