[Python-Dev] Re: [PSF-Members] Nokia (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Thu Feb 12 04:37:15 EST 2004

David Ascher wrote:

I'm at ETech 2004, where the CTO of Nokia talked about how they are currently using Python to develop applications that run on their

Can you give an example? Is there any hint that the phones might ship with the Python interpreter installed?

"66-series" platform (which includes the n-gage IIRC).

Proably you mean "Series 60". Yes, it does include the N-Gage and the Symbian camera phones.

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,6566,010_40,00.html

Series 60 phones are not just made by Nokia. Look at the bottom of that page. Series 60 is basically the main competitor to Microsoft's SmartPhone platform. (Series 60 is a layer on top of Symbian)

Nokia shipped 100 million units last year.

Not in North America. ;)

Interesting, no?

Yes, that's' great news! I knew something was confused when I first heard that they were porting Perl[1] to the phones. I was thinking: "Why Perl? Python already runs on Symbian." But then it was corrected.[2] On the other hand, Symbian uses Perl for their Symbian app SDK build process, so I thought that they were just more comfortable with it.[3]

Paul Prescod

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/34943.html [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/35040.html [3] http://www.newlc.com/article.php3?id_article=128

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