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."
Re:That isn't enough $$$ (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Wishlist (Score:4, Informative)
1) Better tools... improve EPIC. Perl lacks a good IDE.
Activestate's Komodo is a pretty decent IDE.
Re:Wishlist (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Wishlist (Score:2, Informative)
1) Better tools... improve EPIC. Perl lacks a good IDE
Have you seen Padre?. [perlide.org] A Perl IDE written in Perl.
Re:Just finish Perl6 fer kreissakes (Score:4, Informative)
The primary reason for the longevity of the Perl 6 development effort is shortage of volunteers. To put it harshly, people like you spend their energy complaining instead of helping.
The money is most certainly well-spent on both Perl 5 and Perl 6. I was a Perl Foundation grant recipient to work on Perl::Critic, a static analysis tool and code quality aid. My contributions are making a positive influence to help with the readability, maintainability and portability of large Perl 5 codebases. (read TFA and you'll see my name mentioned) Perl::Critic is being actively used in improving the Parrot codebase.
What have you done to help?