Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 17, 2004 @11:39AM from the not-just-for-dialing-scripts dept.

jonknee writes "MobileTracker notes that Nokia has made it clear that the Perl scripting language is coming to its popular Series 60 devices. This will be a huge boon to mobile software. Just look what happened to the web when CGI got popular. A time frame was not announced."

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Great (Score:4, Funny)

by W32.Klez.A ( 656478 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @11:42AM (#8007301) Homepage

In that case, how long until shitstorm.pl gets launched from a cellphone?

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cool new use for regexes... (Score:5, Funny)

by BriSTO(V)L ( 668928 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @11:45AM (#8007314) Journal

This is so great - instead of using the built-in PDA contact manager functions of our phones, us geeks will be able to craft perl scripts with regexes to look up people's phone numbers...

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Pleasure (Score:5, Funny)

by MisanthropicProggram ( 597526 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @11:48AM (#8007335)

Just think...turn your ringing option to vibrate and then run the pleasure program. Insert phone in front pocket and enjoy!

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Now I need an external keyboard (Score:5, Funny)

by HrothgarReborn ( 740385 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @11:52AM (#8007348)

It already takes me forever to enter names and phone numbers on a cell keypad. I am going to love finding how to do a % or a @.

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Confused? (Score:5, Funny)

by petesmart ( 317037 ) writes: <petesmart@gmail.com> on Saturday January 17, 2004 @11:54AM (#8007369) Homepage

How would I get the shebang line up using predictive text input?

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Re:Pure nonsense (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @12:01PM (#8007405)

It costs less than free?

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Python on Siemens (Score:5, Funny)

by m_frankie_h ( 240122 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @12:03PM (#8007419)

Now if only Siemens ported Python, that would be cool.

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cool... (Score:2, Funny)

by Dreadlord ( 671979 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @12:11PM (#8007463) Journal

...now I can host my own slash based site using my cell phone :)

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Nokia perl (Score:5, Funny)

by eap ( 91469 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @12:12PM (#8007469) Journal

"We are unable to complete your call. Please hang up and try the -w option."

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Re:Good news, I suppose ... (Score:3, Funny)

by Hanji ( 626246 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @12:15PM (#8007479)

My god man, what are you doing? The flamewar that a comment like that could spark would have the potential to bring down all of slashdot!

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News (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @12:21PM (#8007513)

Slashdot server will be moved to run on Nokia mobile phone. A slight lag might appear after the change.

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Re:Pure nonsense (Score:3, Funny)

by Ianoo ( 711633 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @12:40PM (#8007597) Journal

Larry pays you money if you develop with Perl!

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Re:Pure nonsense (Score:2, Funny)

by ghum ( 109642 ) writes: <freedomxx3...19. ... pamgourmet...com> on Saturday January 17, 2004 @01:25PM (#8007881)

Really easy. On mobile phones, it is easy get a lot of line noise.

That can directly be used as perl code.

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Microsofts Answer? (Score:2, Funny)

by lonesometrainer ( 138112 ) writes: <vanlil@ya[ ].com ['hoo' in gap]> on Saturday January 17, 2004 @01:46PM (#8008048)

They're currently in the process of porting Quickbasic to MS enabled Phones.

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So what you're telling me is.... (Score:2, Funny)

by fataugie ( 89032 ) writes: on Saturday January 17, 2004 @04:41PM (#8009193) Homepage

Now there'll be 15 different ways to answer my phone?

Relax...
it's Funny...Ha..Ha..

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Great (Score:4, Funny)

cool new use for regexes... (Score:5, Funny)

Pleasure (Score:5, Funny)

Now I need an external keyboard (Score:5, Funny)

Confused? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Pure nonsense (Score:1, Funny)

Python on Siemens (Score:5, Funny)

cool... (Score:2, Funny)

Nokia perl (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Good news, I suppose ... (Score:3, Funny)

News (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Pure nonsense (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Pure nonsense (Score:2, Funny)

Microsofts Answer? (Score:2, Funny)

So what you're telling me is.... (Score:2, Funny)

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