--- David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:21:08PM -0800, Damian Conway wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > Well, I'll be pretty interested to discover what cause is deemed > more > > > deserving than Larry, Perl 6 or Parrot. The P still stands for > Perl, > > > right? > > > > True. But I suspect that TPF's position is that, to many people, > Perl 6 is > > far less important than mod_Perl, or DBI, or HTML::Mason, or POE, > or PDL, or > > Inline, or SpamAssassin, or XML::Parser, or YAML, or the Slashcode, > or any of > > a hundred other projects on which their job depends on a daily > basis. > > > > Supporting those efforts is important too, and TPF has only limited > resources. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the one thing that all those > projects have in common...well...Perl? And isn't Larry the guy to > whom we owe the existence of Perl? I'm not fortunate enough to be > using Perl in my job, but I'm still more than happy to pony up for a > donation, purely from gratitude. > > This is something along the lines of the applied research vs basic > research question. What Larry is doing pretty much amounts to basic > research that will help all of these other projects in the long run.
Sure. But managing the funding budget isn't a business, where basic research will enable more income. It's the allocation of scarce resources. And from that viewpoint, Larry and P6 is an iceberg, just cruising along hoping to gash a massive hole in the support/maintenance schedule, because once P6 rolls all the other stuff has to be sorted, ported, and supported. If I was in charge of the TPF funding budget, I'd be yearning to pick up the phone whenever I saw an episode of "The Sopranos"(*)... =Austin
