perl on a cellphone

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Re: perl on a cellphone by Courage (Parson) on Dec 22, 2004 at 19:49 UTC
I do have Perl on my cell phone. Just because my cell phone happen to be WinCE and there exist port. See perlce project on sourceforge site at http://perlce.sourceforge.net/. Next time please consider spending a bit more effort on providing your question and/or explanation, hence showing all readers proper fine respect... It's okay to refer Python, but not okay just throwing your sentences into people. Best regards, Courage, the Cowardly Dog	[reply]
Re^2: perl on a cellphone by drfrog (Deacon) on Dec 24, 2004 at 02:16 UTC
obviously your position from on high give you enough perspective to talk down to me thanks for your OPINION	[reply]
Re^3: perl on a cellphone by Courage (Parson) on Dec 24, 2004 at 08:05 UTC
I did not intended to talk down to you. Honestly. I am just cowardly dog, or may be just someone who had not enough language skills to say things clearly. Sorry if I offended you, I did not meant that.	[reply]
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Re: perl on a cellphone by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Dec 24, 2004 at 23:18 UTC
I'm curious what people would do with Perl on a cell-phone. It's a great language and it does a lot of nice things for me, but I don't do any of those sorts of things on a phone. I'd prefer a nice API to whatever language the phone software used. There is rumor that Jarkko has some sort of Perl running on a Nokia phone, but that might be a personal project. So, because I'm curious, what would everyone else do with Perl on a small device? Little web agents? Randomizing ring tone apps? -- brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>	[reply]
Re^2: perl on a cellphone by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 24, 2004 at 23:45 UTC
I do want Perl on my cellphone because of two things: My cellphone has WAP access but I don't want to use the built-in web browser and I want to aggregate the information scraped from WAP sites. My cellphone has 64MB RAM and lots of flash memory, and it should upload the images I've taken to my main machine automatically without further interaction on my part. Having a(ny) scripting language on a phone that has enough access to the phone features makes such things nice. On the other hand, I didn't want these features badly enough that I did install the Python interpreter on the phone...	[reply]
Re^3: perl on a cellphone by drfrog (Deacon) on Dec 25, 2004 at 08:36 UTC
exactly! small perl based apps to do things locally, someone mentioned micro perl in another thread, sounds interesting i think of some of the java apps like location based services, or custom database apps that take up a lot of time, both in development and in deployment {some telcos dont allow jads to be installed from third party servers} could be made a lots simpler than with java how would it be architectured? how could it be deployed into the market? I have no idea, I have yet to check out how python sets it up, but it does seem feasible	[reply]