If Droid is running a JVM then you ought to be able to run Clojure code on it -- a much more interesting language than Java, closer to Lisp, as someone on this list first noted a while back. If I were going to take the time learn another language right now Clojure might be it due to the prevelance of the JVM and Clojure's improvements over Java.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg London" <[email protected]> To: "Adam Russell" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: 07/14/2010 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Languages to learn in addition to Perl > >> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:54:33 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Boston-pm Digest, Vol 85, Issue 8 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> CC: [email protected] >> >> arus wrote: >> >> Greg wrote: >> >> Unfortuanately, no one has ported perl to android. >> >> >> > Incorrect. >> > There is a port to android available through >> > the android script layer. >> > I have experimented with it a little and it looks promising. >> > http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ >> >> Cool! >> >> I hope to pick up a Motorola Xtreme as soon as one is available. >> >> I'm a bit concerned about interpreting perl on a >> 1 ghz ARM-CortexA8 processor, but, really, who cares, >> it's perl! On a phone! > Just another note but there has been the port to Symbian OS > which has been around for a while. In fact, I was one of the > more recent persons to have submitted code for that port. > Currently Symbian is at 5.10 with only a small subset of modules ported. > If you want a more hardcore mobile project to work on Certainly, at some point down the road I hope that my droid-java(perl?) powered death star will allow me to become the ultimate power in the universe. But right now I'd be happy if I could do "hello world". anyone know of an excellent Java book that they would highly recommend (couldn't hurt if it explains java and bytecode)? > Symbian might be it. > Then again Symbian has about .0001% of the share of smartphone hype in the > US > relative to apple and android, it seems... > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with > Hotmail. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > -- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
