M for Palm?

[M-a-S]

Is there such a guy?
Technically, it must be quite simple, since there are a few
implementations for PC with the source code, and the size
of M would fit Palm perfectly. But I never seem to see M
for Palm. Or would it be absolutely useless?
M-a-S

[John Fraser]

Granted that I'm new here, but...

I think it would be a very power combination. Most database vendors today
provider a "lite" version to allow data synchronization from the desktop to
the mobile device. If M is as powerful as I'm beginning to understand, it
is a perfect place for it. It was originally designed to run on constrained
hardware, making it ideal for mobile and embedded systems programming. The
big database vendors mobile databases are still bulky and slow.

I was looking at FreeM, and whatever the one at Mumps.org is called, for
this reason. FreeM looks like it would be easier to port, from my initial
look anyway.

Cheers,

John

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[paul perrin]

I have used 'HanDBase' on the palm, which syncronises with a HanDBase
desktop application that is ODBC compliant. Really the database engine is
pretty irrelevant - data entry/reporting is plenty fast enough and the
desktop drivers allow integration with everything (ODBC permitting) - and I
am not even suggesting that HanDBase is the best of the Palm databases.

The Psion range of organisers always had programability as a big selling
feature, but in practice it just seemed to reduced their rate of decline.

Realistically, for many, many people their handheld is primarily a
detachable interface to MS Outlook - If your app is brilliant, you will
interface with whatever the handheld supports - you will not demand that the
handheld loads an alien OS too.

In practice, for M to 'break out' it would have to layer its functionality
on to recent existing technologies rather than try to drag its own onto the
latest hardware. M(ish) to manipulate an XML document object model would be
good - at no cost to anyone. Also, (a la ADSI) going on to provide standard
interface (for M XML, accessible to an M XMLdom) to access everything that
anyone might ever want to program from the one source would bring the
technology to the language rather then demanding that the langauge
constantly evolves to incorporate every latest fashion.

Hey this sounds like a job for user definable ssvns!! :-))

Paul /)/+)

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