Call For Grant Proposals In Perl Development 137
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."
Rules and Regulations (Score:5, Funny)
Your proposal must be submitted in the form of a self-aware regular expression with at least 200 backreferences.
Proposal requirements (Score:5, 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.
Re:Wishlist (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?
Re:House of glue (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...
Worth $500? (Score:1, Funny)
print "Hello, world!\n";
How much will I get for this?
Re:Converter! (Score:3, Funny)
Perl is not dead, Parrot is. Though I've heard it might in fact be just resting.
Re:Greatly exagerated demise (Score:3, Funny)
> Stop writing Perl as PERL please, it hurts my eye.
The cyclops has spoken!