Friday, January 02, 2004

Patrick Logan talks about wanting scripting languages on mobile devices. I completely agree. This is one of the reasons why I ported Ficl Forth and the Io programming language to the Symbian platform (specifically the Nokia 9210 cellphone). Being able to write quick scripts on the phone itself to send SMS, respond to SMS, etc was great. When my 9210 died I got a Nokia 3650 which is also a Symbian device but doesn't have a keyboard. I've not yet worked out the best way of writing scripts for it. I'm leaning towards running a small HTTP server on the phone and using a computer or PDA to write the scripts and send it to the phone via the HTTP server. 3:19:33 AM