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Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-just-for-dialing-scripts dept.

jonknee writes "MobileTracker notes that Nokia has made it clear that the Perl scripting language is coming to its popular Series 60 devices. This will be a huge boon to mobile software. Just look what happened to the web when CGI got popular. A time frame was not announced."

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  1. Re:This is good news by owlstead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's no denying that you can write really ugly code in Perl, but you can also write beautiul code in Perl

    Which is somehow always the phrase if someone's defending one of the ugly languages. You CAN do it right. Well, you can write beautiful basic code, but most programmers agree that basic is ugly as sin.

    When I write "2" + 2 then I would expect the language to reply "bullshit" too me. If the language uses answer = inputVar + 2 and the answer is four for "2" + 2, imagine what happens if the input is "u". Now u2 is ok for me, but I don't want the program to crash when it is trying to divide that variable later on.

    Java is great for things like this. As long as there are additional interfaces available to use the specific phone features if they are available. Java applications are small, strong typed, and they know the word sandbox. Furthermore, there are many great tools around and very usefull debuggers.