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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. Perl on PalmOS? by arodland · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know the idea has been tossed around before, and people have said that the platform is just too small... but now PalmOS has better devices, tons more memory, and the ability to work with files, and it pretty much always _has_ had the abiliy to load libraries. Even the internet-connection stuff is downright unified these days. I would think that it would be possible to port a considerable subset of Perl, by this point, that would be able to do most of the things one would want to do on a handheld anyway.