gav writes "Back in December The Perl Foundation awarded three grants. Damian Conway was given a grant to complete Perl6::Rules. Mark Jason Dominus recieved two grants, the first to embark on a replacement Perl debugger, and the second to finish support for lexically scoped pragmas.
More information can be found in the Press Release."
Right now the proposals are the only things there, but as I get more work done, I'll deposit code and other materials in those directories.
I expect to start work at the beginning of May.
Re:Proposals
lemmett on 2004-05-21T22:16:03
In the debugger proposal you say: "A debugger that can be stepped backwards is probably impossible."
I can't supply you with the details, but I know that in the mid-to-late eighties several grad students at Montana State University got their degrees with thesis work that involved building several generations of a compiler/interpreter for Pascal called Dynamod that allowed the user to step backwards while running the code.
I don't know how much if any of that work could be pulled across to Perl, but Rocky Ross (ross@cs.montana.edu) was the faculty sponsor for the research.
