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Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad?

Posted by samzenpus on from the changing-the-way-things-are-done dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's not so long since Apple silently dropped the restriction about iOS apps for programming — iPad owners can now code in Lua with Codea or with Python for iOS. Yesterday, a new app called Kodiak PHP brought another IDE to the iPad, this time for PHP coders. Pandodaily's Nathaniel Mott describes it as a full-blooded software development tool with comparison to other iOS apps. Cult of Mac reports that the demise of the Mac might be closer than we think, but are developers really ready to use the on-screen keyboard to do some serious work?"

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  1. Re:Suuuuuurvey says... "No"! by larry+bagina · · Score: 1, Troll

    I bet you also wonder why anyone would want to stick his penis into a vagina, too.

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  2. Re:Exactly by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1, Troll

    'A computer in every home' was Bill Gates' dream.

    'A Lawyer in every computer store' was Jobs.

  3. Re:AppleScript Studio? HyperCard replacement? by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1, Troll

    I agree that a HyperCard replacement would be fine, for Macs as well. But calling Runtime Revolution a HyperCard replacement ... no modern "so called replacement" had ny thing to do with hypercard at all ... Runtime Revolution is a kind of VisualBasic, thats all, not a HyperCard replacement or successor.

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  4. Re:On the iPad? by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, Java is preinstalled, and even it would, what would be the problem?

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    Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.