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Call For Grant Proposals In Perl Development

Posted by kdawson on from the sand-in-the-oyster dept.

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. Wishlist by coryking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1) Better tools... improve EPIC. Perl lacks a good IDE.
    2) Get perl running on IIS using ISAPI (basically, mod_perl for IIS).
    3) Either finish Perl6 or give up. Nobody cares about the CLR thing, give us Perl6 the language. The delay in shipping Perl6 is killing the language.
    4) ????
    5) Create a branch in CPAN called Ponies::*. There are many libraries for ponies such as Ponies::Little or Ponies::Fast.

    1. Re:Wishlist by ImustDIE · · Score: 4, Informative

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

      Activestate's Komodo is a pretty decent IDE.

    2. Re:Wishlist by bcrowell · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

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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:Wishlist by NickFortune · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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?

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  3. 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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  4. Re:That isn't enough $$$ by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  5. I thought it meant you lived in NY/California? by BerntB · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some places DO seem to pay that kind of money. Or the GP lied. Or the really is good (the Perl world has some really smart and interesting people).

    The real problem for Perl is the bad hype, which your tro... hrm, guessing without facts, is a typical example of.

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