[Israel.pm] Nokia and Perl

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 00:17, Pinkhas Nisanov wrote:
> It's not Perl, it's python
>
> :-(
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/35040.html
>

Well, the article is not conclusive on the fact that Perl would be completely 
eliminated out of use there. For instance:

<<<
This is still the plan, but in a statement released internally, Nokia says 
"Within the context of a relatively new platform, Series 60, one 
implementation of a technology concept tool will actually involve the 
evaluation of Python as the scripting language, with the existing potential 
for Perl to be a strong evaluation candidate in a secondary phased approach." 
>>>

So there's hope yet. One should note that Perl is available for Linux-based 
cell-phones already, because it can already compile on Linux (naturally). I 
think I recall it was also ported to WinCE and to PalmOS. This makes Simbian 
the last mobile phones OS to adopt it. So much for keeping things 
proprietary.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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