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On 05/10/2010 09:53 PM, RA Brown wrote:

> Porting to the iPAD would require special approval from Apple and is not 
> likely to happen.

What requires special approval is getting it into the Apple iPad store.

The iPad store rules theoretically prohibit any application that
interprets code. This would, in theory, exclude any application that
utilizes macros, or allows macros to be created.

What Apple would like to do, is mandate that all software for the iPad
be written in Objective C. What they compromised on, was a very short
list of languages, which pointedly excluded scripting languages.

That said, rewriting OOo in Objective C, and eliminating the
dependencies on Mono and Java that is has, would be a good thing for a
number of reasons. (I just realized that ADA is not on the list of
approved languages for the iPad. Pity,because that language mandates
secure, stable code.)

jonathon
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