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:That isn't enough $$$

[LostCluster]

Six figure salaries for a programmer is a sign of doom for the language. Nobody else is willing to do your job because the rest of the world has moved on. If only I could have my days as a $35/hr. VB 6.0 programmer back.

House of glue

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Wishlist

[NickFortune]

It boggles the mind that I have to go through this nonsense to store an array in an array. Guess what I have to do in order to store an array in an array in ruby...

Would it be something like this?

ruby -e '

foo=Array.new
foo[1]=Array.new
foo[1][2] = 3 '

or rather, guess what I don't have to do in order to store an array in an array in ruby

Something like this?

perl -e '$foo[1][2] = 3'

Perhaps it would help if you said which nonsense, specifically, struck you as being onerous?

Re:Just finish Perl6 fer kreissakes

[chromatic]

Many are goal oriented and want to see that they are making progress towards a goal.

The Rakudo spectest chart has daily updates of exactly that.

Re:Just finish Perl 6 fer kreissakes

[chromatic]

Not only that, would you write a bunch of code in a language knowing that at any moment it could be invalidated by a few small tweaks? I wouldn't, not production code at least.

No one's suggesting you do so for Perl 6 right now. Ask again later this year.

But still until the language design is frozen, you will never be done.

Perl 5 is 14 years old, and its language design still isn't frozen. Almost every question of language design in the past year regarding Perl 6 has come from the implementors, whether people writing the language, people writing specification tests for the language, or writing applications in the language.

Really what is needed is someone like Larry Wall to finish his documentation, then someone to write tests based on the Perl 6 language design (In Perl 6) and then passing those tests can become a chart to Perl 6.

That's exactly what we're doing, just simultaneously.

If you're not advocating a waterfall-style approach I apologize -- but I get that impression. I've never seen that process work for any software, especially a programming language. I'm sure you can ask just about any other implementor of Perl 6 and receive the same answer.

Static Tree Analysis for Refactoring?

[hachete]

Anyone?