Hi,

It is clear from the modifications that were made to Python in order for it
to be supported that there is a fair bit of language modification required.
Furthermore, Guido van Rossum joined the AppEngine team.

In order for Perl to ever be supported, it is probable that core members of
the Perl community would need to be mobilized to support that effort.

I would like to see this project get organized and get off the ground.
I am volunteering to spearhead it (at least until someone better capable
of doing it volunteers) and mobilize members of the Perl community who
can assist with this. (i.e. to create a version of Perl, a set of libraries,
and a collection of frameworks with sufficient features disabled and sufficient
additional support added for BigTable, etc.)

However, I need an organizing contact at Google to coordinate with.
If there is any possibility of this working out, please let me know who that
would be.

Thanks,

Stephen Adkins
spadkins@gmail.com

P.S. YAPC::NA 2008 is coming up (in Chicago) in June, and this would be
an ideal time to advance such a project through its organizational phases.
So there is some aspect of this that is time-critical.