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C++ on Pocket PC?
hoibbes asks: "I was wondering if anyone knew of a C++ program for my Pocket PC. Now, I know that I will probably get quite a few replies saying Embedded Visual C++, and while they would be right, that is not what I am looking for. I am looking for a program that will let me write C++ code on my Pocket PC. So that while I am away on a trip I can still work on my code. I have been searching for a while now and have come up with nothing. I come to ask the help of Slashdot in a final attempt to find what I need."
Look, you're going on a trip. Leave the pocket PC and the C++ code behind. Go to your nearest bike shop and pick up a shiny new Kona NuNu for about $650 US and go hit the singletrack. It will do you some good. Remember, there is life outside of your pocket PC. Trust me, this is the best advice you can recieve, lest you look back in 40 years and see that you spent your life doing anything but living.
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
I like to write code for fun as well as profit. And a lot of people don't see the fun.
.Net grows, you may eventually have access to things like Scheme or Python that run interactively on the device and do some pretty fun things.
People wouldn't give you any flack if you wanted to write music or poetry or draw, or even numb your brain with a game of solitaire, but they'll see writing code as "working" (heavens!) instead of as doing something creative in an interesting medium, and think that makes you pretty weird.
If it does, at least you're not alone.
I will say, though, that I don't find writing C++ to be much fun compared to something like Lisp. The creativity I feel when writing code is degraded, not heightened, when I have to take care of menial chores like memory management. I wouldn't want to write C++ on a small device, either, because it requires so much source code to say anything, and then you have to juggle header files, and root around in a debugger to see what damage your C operations are doing to memory, etc. You need a lot of those things in front of you simultaneously to be productive.
I think that C++ on a pocket device wouldn't be worth doing (until we have full retinal scan displays), so I don't expect you to find much, but as
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
I'm not sure what you mean by "program."
However, you may wish to go PocketPC's Open Source Portal. There you can get gcc (which includes g++ I suspect) or vim.
Poor Arcadum got b!tchslapped a little too quick, methinks. Actually given that the writer is going to be doing coding that he expects to compile and run on a PocketPC - odds that it will easily run on laptop hardware that is three or four generations old.
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Heck I have a Dell Latitude CPiA with a PII/366 CPU, 256M of RAM, 20G of drive space, 802.11b, a PCMCIA 10BaseT NIC and Modem, a 13" active matrix screen, and the whole thing weighs like 6lbs (3kg). Maybe with power adapter and nylon case it is 10lbs total, and cheap. Maybe $400 on the high end, cheaper than a nice new PocketPC. Running Windows 2000 Professional and Visual Studio 6.0 with all the other advantages of a desktop (nice full size keyboard, full size 1024x768 display, use a nice external mouse, run the code, compile at a reasonable speed, run Linux if that is your thing
If the original guy is going to be travelling by bicycle then it may not fit his travel plans, but if he is travelling by car or commercial travel (plane, train, etc...) then an older laptop wouldn't be that much bigger or more expensive than a Handheld, and would offer a LOT more functionality.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer