I remember there being a big song-and-dance-routine in the Python community a few years ago when Nokia* did the same for Python. And yet for all the hoo-ha, I can't think of anything good / useful / big coming out of it for the Python community. For example games for phones seem to be actively advertised as Java games nowadays, as if that some-how makes them better. It might be silly but it does point at a certain ubiquity of J2ME in that area in that you don't see the word Python in those full-page ringtone / games / wallpapers ads (unless it's for a wallpaper of a python for the niche ophiophilist market).
<br><br>Maybe the effect was felt in the Python community in ways I couldn't detect (by virtue of not being part of it anymore), so if anyone who knows more than me about this (e.g. anything at all) can re-educate me otherwise, by all means feel free.
<br> <br>Muz<br><br>*or was it Symbian? I think it was just for Nokia phones, but maybe back then only Nokia phones ran the Symbian OS<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 21/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Ward</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@popdog.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tom@popdog.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for that, I'm going to try this out when I have the time.<br><br>Tom<br><br>On 21/11/06, Romek Szczesniak <<a href="mailto:romeks@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
romeks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <a href="http://developer.symbian.com/main/tools/opensrc/ruby/index.jsp" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://developer.symbian.com/main/tools/opensrc/ruby/index.jsp</a><br>><br>> Ruby for Symbian OS<br>> Introduction<br>><br>> Symbian is releasing Ruby for Symbian OS to the Open Source software<br>> developer community. Ruby for Symbian OS brings the power of the Ruby
<br>> programming language to the Symbian ecosystem under the terms of this<br>> Licence Agreement.<br>><br>> The package includes the Ruby source code (based on Ruby 1.8.5),<br>> bundled in a straight forward launcher application. An initial
<br>> prooof-of-concept module has been added also. Documentation and<br>> example code will be added in the future as the project evolves.<br>> Why Ruby?<br>><br>> Ruby for Symbian OS is being released in advance of an upcoming series
<br>> of articles about Runtime Environments on Symbian OS.<br>><br>> Ruby is a powerful dynamic language that reaches the heights of the<br>> pure Object Oriented Programming paradigm and gives a wealth of<br>
> language features like exceptions, blocks, closures, regular<br>> expressions, collections, meta-classing and much more.<br>><br>> Whilst no mass market application has yet to come from that direction,<br>> what does look certain is that Ruby is enjoying a growing popularity
<br>> in different developer communities. Within these communities, there's<br>> also a curiosity to see how certain tasks can be coded elegantly or<br>> easily with dynamic languages.<br>> Symbian's role in the Ruby project
<br>><br>> This project is another step in the evolution of Ruby, and Symbian is<br>> happy to provide this code to the open source community, which can<br>> then decide on how Ruby will evolve as a mobile platform.
<br>><br>> The large collection of Ruby resources means that Symbian does not<br>> need to teach the Ruby language. However, it is our intent to suggest<br>> a framework to extend Ruby with mobile libraries.<br>
><br>> While the Ruby language will give you the computation and techinical<br>> playground, the mobile libraries which you can create will be the<br>> actual enablers to a variety of applications such as games, tools,
<br>> PIMs and much more.<br>><br>> Symbian will provide the project with an initial proof-of-concept<br>> (POC) library that can do:<br>><br>> * Rendering<br>> * Messaging<br>> * Persistence
<br>><br>> The POC will be available for S60 and UIQ.<br>><br>> <a href="http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/files/S60_Ruby_3rd.zip" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/files/S60_Ruby_3rd.zip</a>
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