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Listen to Larry Wall's State of the Onion 2000 on YouTube

Jul 10, 2020 by David Farrell

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Hidden Gems of Perl.com

Jan 4, 2018 by David Farrell

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Classic articles from Perl.com’s archive

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Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...

Dec 6, 2007 by Larry Wall

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I think, to most people, scripting is a lot like obscenity. I can’t define it, but I’ll know it when I see it. Here are some common memes floating around: Simple language “Everything is a string” Rapid prototyping Glue…

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The State of the Onion 10

Sep 21, 2006 by Larry Wall

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Welcome to the tenth State of the Perl Onion. For those of you who are unfamiliar with my methods, this is the annual speech wherein I ramble on about various things that are only marginally related to the state…

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The State of the Onion 9

Sep 22, 2005 by Larry Wall

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For the last couple of years, we’ve been homeschooling our two youngest kids. Gloria has been making sure they learn the easy subjects like history and mathematics. I’ve been making sure they also learn the hard subjects like, um,…

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The State of the Onion

Aug 19, 2004 by Larry Wall

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Note: All comments in square brackets are X screensavers that I ran for my slides. If you want to play along at home, start up xscreensaver-demo and click on the screensaver named. By the way, for any screensaver that…

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State of the Onion 2003

Jul 16, 2003 by Larry Wall

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This is the 7th annual State of the Perl Onion speech, wherein I tell you how Perl is doing. Perl is doing fine, thank you. Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to spend the rest of…

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3rd State of the Onion

Aug 30, 1999 by Larry Wall

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This talk was delivered by Larry Wall on August 23, 1999 at the Perl Conference 3.0 in Monterey, CA. (Note: most of the pictures this year were images of molecules that I animated using a program called RasMol, along…

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