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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. More information on the topic by storl · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is some more information here if anyone is interested.

  2. Re:Now I need an external keyboard by Jetboy01 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe the Nokia 6800 is the phone for you:

    Nokia 6800

    built in qwerty keyboard, quite nice, and not as heavy or bulky as you would expect.

  3. Wrong link by Accipiter · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about a link to the better, more informative article where the actual information lies?

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  4. Re:Next mobile by aallan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Big question - does it have an SSH client?

    What? For the Nokia Series 60 platform? Yes!

    I SSH into my workplace UNIX box from my Nokia 3650 moderately regularly. The SSH client for SymbainOS is a port of PuTTY and can be found here.

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  5. Re:This is a great idea by chromatic · · Score: 3, Informative
    Perl, the fully interpreted language?

    Perl has a compiler and a virtual machine just like Java does. In cases where high performance is really necessary, perhaps Nokia will cache bytecode or use a persistent interpreter.

    With that said, I'd rather see them use Parrot, as it's a nicer approach in the long term.

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