Re: does perl goes to mobile?

If you mean writing programs for cell phones, then I'm afraid it's not a matter of perl6 supporting mobile application development, but mobile application development supporting perl6. Cell phone manufacturers (in cooperation with cell service providers) decide what software to put on their phones, and AFAIK rarely provide SDKs to allow us to compile software to run on their platform. Short of rewriting parrot in java (a major undertaking), there's no way to get parrot software (including perl6) to run on them without the cooperation of the manufacturer.

If you mean PDAs, then both perl5 and perl6 should be portable to any PDA with a modern archetechure (which, sadly, does not include Palms, which use a segmented memory model -- it may be possible (but difficult) to port perl5 to them, but will not be possible to port parrot without major changes).

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Re^2: does perl goes to mobile? by bill_mcgonigle (Acolyte) on Jan 12, 2005 at 05:58 UTC
(which, sadly, does not include Palms, which use a segmented memory model -- it may be possible (but difficult) to port perl5 to them, but will not be possible to port parrot without major changes). Fortunately PalmSource is moving to 'PalmOS' being a layer atop linux so you might see some movement in a positive direction here. Maybe I can run perl on my Treo 900!	[reply]