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Nokia Releases Perl for Series 60 Phones

Posted by timothy on from the best-programmed-with-keypad dept.

Jukka Laurila writes "Nokia just released a port of Perl 5.8 and 5.9 for the Series 60 smartphone platform. The port contains just the interpreter core, ie. there's no support for any of the Series 60 APIs yet, but this is still great news for all you Perl aficionados out there."

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  1. Oh great... by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    now we have code no one can comprehend on screens too tiny to be legible.

    1. Re:Oh great... by GoRK · · Score: 5, Funny

      This, from a a person by the name of 0x461FAB0BD7D2?

  2. changes by same_old_story · · Score: 3, Insightful
    this is the kind of thing that will make a difference towards the elusive real smart phone.

    its not a 10 megapizel camera that will make these things very useful. only when there's good software for them, people will buy into it, really. we are waiting for the killer apps in cell phones.

    giving developers choice (seriers 60 already has a python port and many phones do have java 2me) is what will help the next kille apps come to life...

  3. Awesome news! by sw155kn1f3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Expect user friendly and robust programs soon!

    perl -MNokia::Smartphone -eshell
    nokia> ATDT +x xxx xxx xxx xxx
    BUSY
    nokia> my %pb; tie(%pb, 'GDBM_File', "phone_book", O_RDONLY, 0666);
    nokia> ATDT $pb{dave}
    Dialing +x x x x x x ..........

    I'm just looking forward for it! Awesome mobile platform!

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  4. Well.... by slapout · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Perl code and some of those text messages do look an awful lot alike...:-)

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  5. Perl? by scoopr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, there already is a python port
    Personally, I'd like ruby, but each to its own I guess.