TPF announces grant to David Mitchell (use Perl)

[Posted November 18, 2008 by cook]

use Perl has announced a $5000 grant award for David Mitchell. "It is with considerable pleasure that TPF announces today a Perl development grant to David Mitchell for the release of Perl 5.10.1. David's work through this grant will be: * The vetting and application of 400+ outstanding patches to the Perl 5.10 codebase; * A rework of the "smart match" feature semantics to address known issues; * Packaging of a Perl 5.10.1 release distribution."