Re: perl on a cellphone

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?

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brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>

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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]