Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

2 of 174 comments (clear)

  1. Re:From the article by poopdeville · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here's an essay about why braces are inferior to tab delimiting. I know some people really dislike them, but the article offers quite a few good points (and laughs!). I thought it was a very interesting read.

    --
    After all, I am strangely colored.
  2. Google... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 1, Troll

    How is it a troll? I'll tell you how: Slashdot has moved on from Ruby on Rails and is now in prepetual masturbation mode over all things Google. Haven't you noticed?

    --
    "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck