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Call For Grant Proposals In Perl Development

On Elpeleg writes "The Perl Foundation is giving out grants for Perl development ranging from $500 to $3,000 in February 2009. You neither need to have a large, complex, or lengthy project nor be a Perl master or guru. You are encouraged to submit a proposal if you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish your Perl project. The deadline for proposal submissions is January 31, 2009."

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  1. Rules and Regulations by schmidt349 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your proposal must be submitted in the form of a self-aware regular expression with at least 200 backreferences.

  2. Proposal requirements by NewbieProgrammerMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    You neither need to have a large, complex, or lengthy project nor be a Perl master or guru.

    You do, however, have to be able to fit it all on one line.

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  3. Re:Wishlist by somenickname · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Better tools... improve EPIC. Perl lacks a good IDE.

    Why would you need an IDE to write a single line of code?

  4. Re:House of glue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Perl is the best glue there is. It works on everything. Still, I would not build a house out of glue.

    I thought we were still talking about ponies for a second...

  5. Worth $500? by MortenMW · · Score: 1, Funny

    #!/usr/local/bin/perl
    print "Hello, world!\n";

    How much will I get for this?

  6. Re:Converter! by mobby_6kl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perl is not dead, Parrot is. Though I've heard it might in fact be just resting.

  7. Re:Greatly exagerated demise by Chysn · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Stop writing Perl as PERL please, it hurts my eye.

    The cyclops has spoken!

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