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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 a great idea by rewound98 · · Score: 2, Troll

    Are you on crack? That Nokia phone is slower than pig in slop retrieving "real time quotes". It's not going to matter if you're using Perl, C++, or Java....the bottleneck to doing it "quickly" is the network...not the programming language.

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    -- Rob
  2. ERROR: Program won't work, perl MODULE missing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perl modules suck, everyone is so damn lazy and won't write their own code anymore and depend on whacky modules located who knows where!
    It sucks!