State of the Onion 2003
by Larry Wall
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Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
It's kind of unusual to see the diagram in this orientation, probably due to linguistic considerations.
But whether you say "one out of many" or "e pluribus unum",
it means much the same thing. In a language that reads left to right, perhaps it's more naturally suited to processes that lose information, such as certain kinds of logic.
Again, we can go from the very small to the very large.
If you feed three random planets to a black hole, you also lose information. Or at least you hide it very well, depending on your theory of how black holes work.
If you feed one of these diagrams to a black hole, it turns into a piece of spaghetti.
But let's not, and say we did.
