Python for the Palm(tm) Computing Platform

[William Tanksley]

On 29 Oct 1999 14:33:45 +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
>Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com> writes:

>> For me, it's some kind of combination of a technical stunt and
>> frustration that calculator apps are never quite powerful enough.  It'd
>> be nice to be able to doodle algorithms into a handheld.

>One step up is MathPad, which solves coupled sets of equations.
>But that's still far from being able to use algorithms. Perhaps
>Pocket C, but for someone used to Python it's difficult to use
>such a primitive language. Maybe that's the real motivation for the
>repeated questions about Python for the Palm: Python addiction.

Well, there's a Scheme for the Pilot (which I've never used) and a very
nice Forth.  I've used the Forth to solve some nasty modular arithmetic
problems.

>Konrad Hinsen                            | E-Mail: hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr

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-William "Billy" Tanksley