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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. Screensavers, music, and Unicode? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Screensavers, music, and Unicode... and photoshopping himself into James Bond photos.

    Hm.

    Well I guess that explains then what he's been doing instead of fricking finishing Perl 6!!!

    Seriously man I have completed a college education and an entire generation of video game consoles have passed in the time that Perl 6 has been coming "Real Soon Now".

    1. Re:Screensavers, music, and Unicode? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, he was patiently waiting for you to finish your college education before releasing PERL 6. Took a while, eh?

    2. Re:Screensavers, music, and Unicode? by chromatic · · Score: 5, Funny
      Well I guess that explains then what he's been doing instead of fricking finishing Perl 6!!!

      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!

      --
      how to invest, a novice's guide
    3. Re:Screensavers, music, and Unicode? by lullabud · · Score: 5, Informative
      From my understanding of the situation, it's not his position to be finishing Perl 6, it's the communities.
      "Perl 5 was my rewrite of Perl. I want Perl 6 to be the community's rewrite of Perl and of the community."
      --Larry Wall, State of the Onion speech, TPC4
  2. Oh geez... by gbulmash · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is the first "State of the Onion" I've read, and probably the last. Lots of inside jokes and veiled allusions that the casual Perl dabbler just ain't gonna get.

    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
  3. Ridiculous by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I'm sorry, but a lot of people are waiting for Perl6 and he has photoshopped James Bond, witty dialogue about nuclear weapons and faux videogame graphics. Parrot has been in alpha for what, 5 years now?

    Perl can't continue to subsist solely on its established reputation of being the internet's 'glue'. An entire generation of developers have moved to other languages and frameworks. It looks more like Perl is going to end up as the next COBOL.

    The world is moving on.