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05.04.10
10 Perl Foundation/Parrot Foundation Projects Accepted For Google SoC
 By
Doug Caverly
Not too long ago, we talked about Google's annual Summer of Code program and its potential importance to Perl. Now, that importance has been more or less confirmed, as the Perl Foundation and the Parrot Foundation have had ten projects made part of the agenda.
A post on the Perl Foundation's site identified the first four project titles as "Rework Catalyst framework's instance initialisation code to provide more flexible and extensible inversion of control," "A PAST Optimization Framework for Parrot," "Hybrid Threads for Parrot," and "NFG and single-representation strings for the Parrot Virtual Machine."
Next up were "Bulletproofing the Mojolicious unit and integration test suite," "Ctypes for Perl," "Adding support for binary data in Rakudo," and "Implementing an Instrumentation Tool for Parrot VM for GSoC 2010."
Finally, the list ended with "Improvements to the NCI system and LLVM Stack Frame Builder" and "Releasing Mildew and SMOP on CPAN."
Of course, we have yet to see what sort of progress will be achieved at Google Summer of Code, but it looks like Perl will be receiving a lot of attention from some very smart people this summer thanks to the search giant.
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