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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. Maybe perl is a bad joke.... by 0xdeaddead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so here comes the punchline!

  2. Re:And every year by Vombatus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, it made me cry

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  3. Re:From the article by JanneM · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And Ruby looks like VB. I like my semicolons.

    Which is about as fair as disliking Python for its use of indenting instead of braces. Me, I dislike Python because it has the name of a snake, and I'm phobic :) (only half kidding, actually; I have a real difficulty reading a book when it has a picture of a snake on the cover or when I know a drawing or picture of one could appear whenever I turn a page).

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  4. Larry Wall, along with Donald Knuth... by Eunuch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...are in fact Christians. Just a fact. May make you want to use what they come up with more. Or maybe less. I just know I often have a choice when it comes to computer languages. And this could be a factor.

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  5. It'll become obsolete even before it comes out by melted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Check this out: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=1146 80 and make sure you watch it to the end.

    INSANE stuff. MSFT may have a winner with that one.