[Kc] JPerl for Android OS

[Ivan Greene]

Currently, and probably permanently, android only supports Java. There is a project for perl on android, but nothing is there yet.

David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:

>there was "JPL" Java-Perl Lingo which was a way to embed Perl in Java,
>I don't know if it has been maintained.
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>After looking at http://source.android.com/release-features it seems
>likely that Perl might just build right using the Bionic libc, if you
>can get out of the Dalvik VM.  Or maybe you can jump straight to perl
>6 by implementing parrot for the
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_virtual_machine
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>http://source.android.com/projects does not list "perl" but that might
>be because (1) it already works or (2) it's within something else such
>as "toolchain" instead of, nobody is working on it.
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>What happens if you get the development kit and attempt to compile Perl?
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>On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Ivan Greene <ivantis at ivantis.net> wrote:
>> Has anyone here come across a nice Perl evaluator written in Java? I'm thinking about putting one on the android OS, because I got a G1 in December (early christmas present from my parents :), and Perl on it would be cool. I found one, but it was weird, you had to have beginning/ending code tags like in PHP, and some other stuff.
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