Jose, for those of us who know nothing about Lua, can you summarize what is special about the language for writing cross-platform Palm/PPC code? (Aaron Ardiri is fond of mentioning how he and his company have managed this using just C. I guess I would be too if I'd done it!)
When you write about creating a version of Lua with common "features" of Palm and PPC, I'm not sure what you mean, mostly because I'm thinking in terms of C which is so general-purpose. I know that there are some papers out there that probably would explain this, but it would be nice to have the "condensed" version. Maybe a small code snippet that compiles to either target to give us an idea of what this might look like? David ************************************* Jose Machado escreveu: (how's my Portuguese?) Well David, we do it here in Hands, at Brazil. :) That's the reason why i suggested it. I can't open the technology to the list (since it's private from my company) but I can surely say to you: It works and works fine. There's a port from Lua to PalmOS, named PLua, but it's not open source. Although Lua is completely free, and IMHO the version 4.01 (the latest is 5.0) is the best to port. Small, fast, easy and powerful. Oh, yes, did I mean it's free ? :) The version 5.0 of Lua does have some interesting ideas like coroutines, multi-thread support (4.01 has this to), and so on, but it's very new, and not completely stable, I guess. I'd like to create an open source, free version of Lua with some common features to the PalmOS and PPC, but I do not have much spare time right now. If anyone is interested, please feel free to email me: machado [at] palmcon [dot] com [dot] br Cheers ! PS: I don't want to start a flamewar about what's the best language, and so. It's just my humble opinion. -- J. Machado Please visit us at http://www.hands.com.br (Lua rulez !! :) ) David Beers escreveu: > Has anyone tried Jose's suggestion of using Lua for cross-platform Palm/PPC > development? It's an intriguing idea. > > David > > Jose Machado wrote >> Or you could move to Lua (there are ports to PalmOS and PPC) and keep all >> your business logic, and also don't worry with the sintatics of > Java/C/C++. >> >> PLua is available to PalmOS (the latest version is entirely free), and >> there's a port for PPC (I really don't know where, but a little googling > may >> answer the question). > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
