Quoted from Stephen Adkins (google employee) from the thread I already mentioned: 
Hi,

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

In order for Perl to ever be supported, it is probable that core membe
+rs 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 capab
+le
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 libr
+aries,
and a collection of frameworks with sufficient features disabled and s
+ufficient
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 wh
+o that
would be.

Thanks,

Stephen Adkins
spadkins@gmail.com

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

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holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Google calls for p5p (was Re: RFC: Perl on Google AppEngine) by holli
in thread RFC: Perl on Google AppEngine by spadkins

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