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."

Comments

Re:Wishlist

[ImustDIE]

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

Activestate's Komodo is a pretty decent IDE.

Re:Wishlist

[bcrowell]

The delay in shipping Perl6 is killing the language.

Perl is dead, Netcraft confirms it.

But seriously, why does it make perl any less viable a language if a production-quality perl 6 takes a long time? Perl 5 continues to be lovingly maintained. Perl 6 will be able to run perl 5 modules in compatibility mode. Perl 6 is already out, and if you want to use it, you can; it's just not yet up to the same very high standards of quality and performance as perl 5.