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The Perl Foundation Grants Are Running Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the throwing-cash-in-the-guitar-case dept.

dogma01 writes "It looks like the grants to fund: Larry, Damian, and Dan have pretty much run out. :(" Keeping guys like these working on Perl is definitely a good thing(tm) if you are looking to support the Open Source Community somehow. You can donate here if you are feeling generous.

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  1. Is this a bad thing? by paulkilroy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perl and its type-unsafe friends are a dime-a-dozen. I think we will all survive it it goes into unmaintained land.

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  2. So what? by mattypants · · Score: 0, Troll


    Perl looks like an explosion in an ASCII factory - who is really going to miss it? Certainly not anyone who has had to maintain stuff written by someone who was trying to protect their job!

    I hope it withers on the vine.

  3. I'm hard pressed... by linux+slacker · · Score: 0, Troll
    to fund someone else's development of a software tool, when I have trouble funding my one necessties (food, beer etc...)

    If Larry, Dan, et al want money why not try a job? While they're at it, maybe they could peddle my resume around too.

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