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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."

10 of 174 comments (clear)

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

    so here comes the punchline!

  2. State of The Onion? by Cerdic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In New Orleans

    WASHINGTON, DC--Dynamic, well-liked Tyler Sheehan was found dead in the floodwaters, much to President Bush's horror.

    The Onion appears to still be doing its satirical news thing.

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  3. Male to Female Ratio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Perl team has a lot of hot chicks on it.

  4. Re:Perl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One acronym qpsmtpd and another, HAND.

  5. holy moly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whoa ludicrous, slashdot now has mouseovers on the links! and the post a comment page is new!

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

    Well, it made me cry

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  7. This fP f0r GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    thaT c0mprise

  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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.