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Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles
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."
In that case, how long until shitstorm.pl gets launched from a cellphone?
This is so great - instead of using the built-in PDA contact manager functions of our phones, us geeks will be able to craft perl scripts with regexes to look up people's phone numbers...
Just think...turn your ringing option to vibrate and then run the pleasure program. Insert phone in front pocket and enjoy!
There is no spoon or sig.
It already takes me forever to enter names and phone numbers on a cell keypad. I am going to love finding how to do a % or a @.
How would I get the shebang line up using predictive text input?
John, I'm Only Dancing!
It costs less than free?
Now if only Siemens ported Python, that would be cool.
...now I can host my own slash based site using my cell phone :)
The IT section color scheme sucks.
"We are unable to complete your call. Please hang up and try the -w option."
My god man, what are you doing? The flamewar that a comment like that could spark would have the potential to bring down all of slashdot!
A Minesweeper clone that doesn't suck
Slashdot server will be moved to run on Nokia mobile phone. A slight lag might appear after the change.
Larry pays you money if you develop with Perl!
Really easy. On mobile phones, it is easy get a lot of line noise.
That can directly be used as perl code.
They're currently in the process of porting Quickbasic to MS enabled Phones.
Now there'll be 15 different ways to answer my phone?
Relax...
it's Funny...Ha..Ha..
WTF? Over?