RE: perl vs php. just the facts, ma'am.

[Ask Bjoern Hansen]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Jason W. May wrote:

> > I think that as a community we would get much more out of sponsoring
> > another year of Damian (or someone like that) or sponsoring specific
> > development of specific features in specific modules (including the
> > perl core).
> 
> How would this work?  Say a company wanted to sponsor specific
> Perl development work.  Should they hire a Perl programmer
> directly?  Are there any other options?

I an not sure what you specifically mean by "hire a Perl programmer
directly".

A message to p5p can help you find someone who can port perl to your
XyzOS. Likewise then I'm sure a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] could
help you find someone who would write a DBD::FooBar for your FooBar
database.  Most module authors are properly happy to take N amount
of money to fix/improve/implement M in their module.

I know that Tim a few times have done specific enhancements to
DBI.pm for specific amounts of money.  The first versions of
libapreq (Apache::(Request|Cookie) are the perl interfaces) was
sponsored by Critical Path if I recall correctly.


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