(keitai-l) Re: scripting on phones

From: dc <dc_at_wm.namco.co.jp>
Date: 06/29/04
Message-Id: <20040629111758.3CFD.DC@wm.namco.co.jp>
Hasn't Nokia been making a lot of noise about python on symbian recently?
not sure if there is a release yet, but was demoed a few times last year.

/dc

from [ nick may <nick@kyushu.com> ] on [ Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:21:27 +0900 ]

>   I am looking for an iappli that will give me a simple scripting 
>   language and an interpreted environment that I can run on a phone. I 
>   don't care what language it is, OPL, interpreted Forth, Basic, PHP, 
>   Javascript or even, at a pinch, perl. I know something (perl?) is 
>   available for a Nokia phone, but I don't 'ave one of dem... I would 
>   even tolerate an assembly environment at a pinch - it would at least 
>   remind me of good coding habits.
>   
>   It's in part "just for fun" (I code to relax, I'd far rather knock up 
>   some silly little app in the back of a taxi than play Tetris) in part 
>   because I have all kinds of little daily "needs" (I s'pose I should 
>   re-phrase that - but you know what I mean) that could be handled by 
>   some simple little language....
>   
>   The Sinclair ZX80 had  a 4k rom and 1k of ram - shared with screen 
>   memory.  The ZX81 had 8k of rom and 1k ram - again - shared with the 
>   screen... I am not looking for an emulator of either - but something of 
>   the same capability would be fine. It should be easy enough to do on a 
>   modern phone.
>   
>   Please don't write to the list saying "why not learn Java" - I can't 
>   write it on the phone in the back of a taxi, for starters - and besides 
>   it looks alarmingly like "work".... And, it is overkill - and that is 
>   aesthetically rebarbative.
>   
>   Has anyone been arsed to code something up like this?
>   
>   (Pointers to FAQ's are fine, pointers to paid FAQ's that aren't up 
>   front about it - thanks, but no...)
>   
>   Nick
>   
>   
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お疲れ様です、DCです。


宜しくお願い致します

/dc
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