Re: Nokia Drops Perl

Not surprised, really. Perl isn't well suited to embedded platforms. It just sucks up too much memory. Python probably is a better choice all round.

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Re: Re: Nokia Drops Perl by Anonymous Monk on Jan 30, 2004 at 16:59 UTC
Perl is just not modular enough to work well for embedded systems. You can embed python, get the core language features, and not have regex capability. You can't do that with perl.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Nokia Drops Perl by CountZero (Bishop) on Jan 31, 2004 at 08:48 UTC
So now it is considered a plus if you can cripple your language? CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]