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Nokia Offers Python For Series 60 Cellphones

Posted by timothy on from the my-nokia-had-snake-5-years-ago dept.

Eric Giguere writes "Python is now available for use on Nokia's Series 60 platform (versions 1 and 2), the operating system used on a number of popular cellphones like the 6600 and less popular ones like the N-Gage. It's Python 2.2.2 with additional modules for platform-specific stuff like SMS messaging. It's an alternative to C++ or Java, though no devices are shipping with Python preinstalled as of yet."

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  1. Mixed feelings by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is an interesting news, and I have some mixed feelings. I hate it, I love it, and I don't care. I hate is as a Perl hacker. I love it as a Parrot enthusiast. And I don't care as a cellphone purist. To be more specific, as a Perl hacker I hate it because I am jealous. As a Parrot enthusiast I love it because what's good for my Python-using friends is also good for Perl in the long run. As a cellphone purist, I don't care because I have just bought a new Nokia 2300 which is already too bloated for my purist taste. All in all, this is an interesting news, even if not surprising. I look forward to read about having Parrot VM available on cell phones one day, so we could finally have an efficient register-based VM suitable for optimal execution of programs written in moderen dynamic languages and be free from the JVM mistakes legacy. This in an important goal.

    --
    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
  2. Re:will python do what java had originally intende by Clueless+Moron · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Well, I just tried a "sleep 60" in both j2me and python on my Zaurus 6000SL.

    j2me: VSZ 11952, RSS 3404, in 4 threads.

    python 2.3.3: VSZ 2676, RSS 2284, in 1 thread.

    That gives python only a little bit bigger footprint than bash. Not too shabby, considering what it can do.