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Yes, I actually agree with you. Especially iPhone is a little ways off from being suitable for a scripting language.

• davidw 17y ago
  No it isn't. As I said below, Hecl works fine on phones much slower than the iPhone. Ok, you don't want to do a big, huge complex app in a dynamic language, but they would be just fine for quick one-offs. Just like with regular computers...
  • tumult 17y ago
    Yeah, but that's not very interesting, so I don't include it :) You can do big complex apps in dynamic languages though. But iPhone is a somewhat restricted environment (not THAT restricted, really) where you are encouraged to use as small a footprint as reasonably possible.
    • davidw 17y ago
      > Yeah, but that's not very interesting, so I don't include it :) Stuff like PHP indicates that plenty of people are quite happy to do quick one off's. Or Tcl/Tk for Unix, or VB for Windows. Scripting is a very sensible idea, and phones are quite capable of handling it these days. I think it's extremely interesting creating something that opens up development to more people.
      • tumult 17y ago
        The ends and the means are not necessarily the same thing! I would rather teach a new programmer Scheme, Python, Ruby etc than PHP, VB, etc.
        • davidw 17y ago
          Sure, those languages are better, but the point is making programming more accessible to more people (something Python has done quite well too, indeed).