David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
I shall certainly be thinking long and hard about passing the perl.com payments to TPF if Larry's not being funded this year (if I should become a member of the copious free time club there'll be no thought necessary I'm afraid, income is income). Which reminds me, I need to check (as I have naively assumed) that the money is automagically being paid to TPF without my having to muck about with invoices and the like. Hmm... Seriously, I think that not putting some funding Larry's way is a big mistake. I'm not saying he should be the only recipient of funds, but he *is* a special case.
