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State of the Onion 9
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."
I'm disapointed it has nothing to do with The Onion - the satirical news site.
Any more onion jokes like that and I'll cry....
you read the summary and get the impression that President Larry Wall just gave the 9th State of the Union address and he loves pearls and onions.
Actually, he was patiently waiting for you to finish your college education before releasing PERL 6. Took a while, eh?
so here comes the punchline!
WHACK! Anonymous Coward slaps Oxodeaddead around the head a bit with a large Perl book! There that will teach you to insult Perl you farty pants VB coder!
With how inaccessible and cryptic it was, you'd think he'd written it in [insert name of programming language here]... ba-dump-bump.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Now, now, just because Ruby's block syntax looks like VB's doesn't mean it deserves to be compared to VB...
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
The sinister Perl 6 cabal briefly debated unlocking Larry from the chains holding him to his desk for 23 and a half hours every day until the first stable release so he could respond, but this comment has given us a much needed sense of perspective: some random jackass on the Internet has nothing better to do than complain. It's back to the salt mines for Mr. Wall!
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> (and not one with loads of irritating whitespacethank you very much).
If thats the only problem with Python (and until you are a bit more explicit, one can pretty much assume so), its gotta be a great language.
(Oh, BTW you are missing a whitespace there between the words "whitespace" and "thank")