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David Welton  
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 More options Nov 13 2007, 10:12 am
From: "David Welton" <davidnwel...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:12:55 +0100
Local: Tues, Nov 13 2007 10:12 am
Subject: Re: Android?

> The general need for good performance is going to limit the
> applicability of many highly dynamic languages on this platform, at
> least initially.

I've actually written simple apps for my Series 40 (read: old, crufty,
and underpowered) phone in Hecl, so I think even highly dynamic
languages will have no problems on anything that can run this system.

> My bet for the first useful non Java language on this platform would be Scala.

Well, if you consider Hecl useful, it's already running (it's a pure
interpreter, so it was quite simple).  I'm just curious about the
potential for more "heavy duty" languages like JRuby, Scala, Jython,
etc...

BTW, I don't think Google will come out with their own front-end
language... they use Java for a lot of stuff internally, and so many
people know it...why rock the boat.

--
David N. Welton

http://www.welton.it/davidw/

http://www.dedasys.com/


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