Paul Johnson wrote:
True. But I suspect that TPF's position is that, to many people, Perl 6 isWell, 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?
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.
Of course, it's my belief that supporting Larry (and Dan) to create Perl 6
is the single most important thing that TPF could do. Because, ultimately, it will benefit all those other projects enormously too.
But I'm clearly biased. :-)
Damian
