Application Portability?

[Peter Hansen]

greg.kujawa at gmail.com wrote:
> Neil Benn wrote:
>>          I know that this isn't a fashionable thing to write on a
>>dynamic language newsgroup but I would really recommend switching to
>>Java for your work if you are looking at recoding it.
> 
> I was thinking this to myself as well, as Java should be available for
> most of these platforms. It's just that I don't really want to use Java
> unless I'm absolutely forced to :-) Can't help it coming from scripting
> languages like Perl and Ruby, plus toying around in Smalltalk. 

Another option I've suggested in the past is to use Lua instead.  It's 
certainly much closer to Perl/Ruby/Smalltalk/Python than any of them are 
to Java, and while I don't know whether it is supported on the specific 
platforms you want, it is widely supported including on the Palm.  It 
also has the Palm OS support that all current versions of Python on the 
Palm are sorely lacking.  (Look for Plua, most likely the most recent 
Plua2 beta...)

-Peter