VANCOUVER, British Columbia – June 4, 2003 – Thanks to the community for recognizing their peers in ActiveState's third annual Active Awards. The awards honor those who *actively* contribute to open source programming languages and display excellence in their programming efforts. Please vote for your favorite Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl and XSLT programmer before the June 30 deadline! Perl, PHP, Python and XSLT winners will be announced at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference July 8, 2003. Tcl winners will be announced at the Tcl conference. Other contest rules are available here.

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