Perl Foundation Awards Perl Development Grant to Larry Wall

Krellis writes: "The Perl Foundation today announced that they have awarded a Perl Development Grant to Larry Wall, the creator of Perl and designer of Perl 6, joining Dan Sugalski and Dr. Damian Conway, the other 2002 grant recipients. The Perl Development Grants are funded by donations; over USD 80,000 has been donated so far, a total of USD 240,000 is needed for the three grants. See http://donate.perl-foundation.org/ for more information on how you can pitch in - every dollar counts! See also the use.perl.org story for more information."

Comments

Re:Perl is extremely useful

[Anonymous Coward]

And I, for one, am constantly amazed to see how awk can do exactly what I need in a minimum amount of time, and without the overhead of Perl.

Perl is overkill for a lot of things. Granted, not everything, but certainly a lot of things. Awk is sadly underrated these days.

Mod parent up!

[phoxix]

Seriously,

Perl might be great an all, however let us not forget the amazing power of awk

After all, what other lovely tool is extremely powerful, and yet fits on those boot floppies you guys use to install *nix?

(Keep in mind that a floppy only has 1440k, which isn't a whole lot when you start adding various needed tools.)

Sunny Dubey

Re:Perl is extremely useful

[Surazal]

I took a class on Awk and Sed, and came out of it proclaiming Perl as the ultimate solution. It seemed that awk and sed came with a few shortcomings that perl easily overcame (take square brackets for example... awk seemed a little inadequate in handling those).

One tool to replace two. Hey, seemed straightforward to me!