If I cannot use Perl to tinker with the machine, it does not really interest me.

Agreed. I don't really see the point of some closed-down hardware that let's you only program "apps" in a crippled down jailed version of java. If i wanted to deal with something that has no use, does not do what i want and has no good way of reprogramming, i could just talk to a user...

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