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Recently, Patrick Michaud, head of the "'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation":http://rakudo.org/ effort on top of the "Parrot VM":http://www.parrot.org/, was awarded the first "Hague grant for Perl 6 development":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. This grant is effectively a follow-up and extension to his highly successful "Mozilla Foundation Perl Foundation grant for Perl 6 development ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/11/patrick_michaud_awarded_perl_6.htmlthat was awarded in November 2007. Patrick wrote an "excellent summary":http://use.perl.org/%7Epmichaud/journal/37403 of the grant and what it achieved at his "use.perl.org":http://use.perl.org/ journal. ... read more |
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The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the second "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Jerry Gay, core Parrot hacker and 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation hacker. The details of Jerry's grant proposal are below. The work will be to define the S19 synopsis pertaining to command-line interaction with Perl 6, and to provide a Rakudo implementation of the synopsis. Jesse Vincent, the project manager of the Perl 6 effort, ... read more |
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The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the first "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Patrick Michaud, the head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation effort on top of the Parrot VM. Conceptually it is an extension of Patrick's earlier Mozilla Foundation Perl Foundation Perl 6 development grant that he worked on between late 2007 and mid 2008. The details of Patrick's grant proposal are below. Jesse Vincent, the ... read more |
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In May 2008, "Ian Hague provided The Perl Foundation with a huge donation for the sake of supporting Perl 6 development":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/tpf_receives_large_donation_in.html. In the past few months, and in consultation with Perl community members at YAPC::NA 2008, TPF has developed a Hague grant process for Perl 6 grants. Please visit "www.perlfoundation.org":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants for more details regarding the Hague grants. ... read more |
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At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Colin should start working later in the Winter. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: so far I've been busy with extending my TAP producer and adding unit tests. I've made it more compatible with Boost Lambda, allowing for example this: Array big numbers.grep big.each int sum big.reduce I'm currently busy with ... read more |