You'll find more info about this by searching for "microperl" It's there in theory, but I haven't found anything that worked. Mostly you'll find discussions explaining why, which basically boils down to perl being too big for Palm's memory. Searching perlmonks for "pda" or "perlce" will turn up some nodes discussing it and basically WindowsCE/PocketPC or a Linux device are your only choices.

For what it's worth, I've only gotten Raineir's perl to work on my ipaq, the more current 5.8 perlce wouldn't run last time I investigated it. I'd like to run POE on my ipaq, eventually.

ps: python, lisp, and java have all been ported to palm in some way or another. You'd think that would be motivation enough for us perl folks to build a better shoehorn :-)

In reply to Re: Is Perl available for PalmOS? by elwarren
in thread Is Perl available for PalmOS? by scottj

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