craigslist hires Larry Wall and explicitly supports Perl 6 development

Jeremy Zawodny recently tweeted that "Larry Wall is now Artist in Residence at craiglist, continuing Perl6 work.". Larry noted on #perl6 that "they are intentionally supporting what I am already doing".

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Re: craigslist hires Larry Wall and explicitly supports Perl 6 development by Anonymous Monk on Oct 17, 2013 at 16:56 UTC
Happy for Larry. Should make his family life a little easier. But, if he's now being paid to do what he was doing anyway, does that represent forward progress, or simply more comfortable stagnation?	[reply]
Re^2: craigslist hires Larry Wall and explicitly supports Perl 6 development by Anonymous Monk on Oct 19, 2013 at 07:09 UTC
But, if he's now being paid to do what he was doing anyway, does that represent forward progress, or simply more comfortable stagnation? It represents forward progress, obviously ; now he's funded	[reply]