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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:Pure nonsense by millette · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was sure this got posted to slashdot, but wasn't able to find a link to it. Anyway, here's Tim O'Reilly's "Wired News Wishes for 2004": http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4117 At the end of the article, he quotes Rael Dornfest, author of Google Hacks and the mobilewhack, with that same exact plead.