[Purdue-pm] Mobile Programming

[Bradley Andersen]

Thank you, Mark, for your response; it looks like you put some thought
into it; I appreciate that :)

\bda


On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Mark Senn <mark at ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>  > Anybody with mobile programming experience @ Perl: what text, etc.
>  > would you suggest as a primer?
>
> ANSWER
>
> I don't know of any.  Does anything from this Perl 5 CPAN search [1]
> look relevant to you?
>
> WHAT I SUGGEST
>
> I like Perl 6 much better than Perl 5.
>
> If you aren't in a hurry to implement I suggest using Perl 6 [2-3].  I
> recommend wating until Rakudo Star [4] is released "by July 29" [2]
> before even trying Perl 6.  I've been using or attempting to use Perl 6
> for years.  At first the language implementation was so incompelete it
> was impossible to use for anything non-trivial---now the language
> implemention is more complete but there isn't complete/good user-level
> documentation for it yet.  I've been learning it from specifications,
> bug reports, blog entries, etc.
>
> I did some Google searches looking for mobile inforamaition and found
> much more for Java than Perl.  Parrot Implementations for Java and Perl
> 6 are being worked on [5].  From Parrot's "Design goals" [6]:
>
>    Parrot is designed with the needs of dynamically typed languages
>    (such as Perl and Python) in mind, and should be able to run
>    programs written in these languages more efficiently than VMs
>    developed with static languages in mind (JVM, .NET). Parrot is
>    also designed to provide interoperability between languages
>    that compile to it. In theory, you will be able to write a class
>    in Perl, subclass it in Python and then instantiate and use that
>    subclass in a Tcl program.
>
> For years I've predicted Parrot will be built in to web browsers.
> Today I found found other speculation about this [7-8].
>
> [1] http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=mobile&mode=dist
> [2] http://www.rakudo.org/
> [3] http://www.perl6.org/
> [4] http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?rakudo_star
> [5] http://www.parrot.org/languages
> [6] http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/latest/html/docs/intro.pod.html
> [7] http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2008-September/000011.html
> [8] http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/39323
>
> -mark
>