From: "M. Norton" Date: 2002-04-30T22:25:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and PalmOS Martin Maciaszek wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:22:26 -0000, "M. Norton" > wrote: >>I recently read an article on Ruby in Linux Magazine and have since done >>some poking around Ruby documentation. Would it be possible to use Ruby >>to create a PalmOS program? All of the PalmOS libraries are in C, but >>they're a pain to use and it seemed to me like the object oriented >>nature of Ruby might be an ideal wrapper for doing quick and dirty >>PalmOS programs. On the other hand, as far as I know, Ruby is an >>interpreted language, so the Palm device would have to have a Ruby >>interpreter onboard to be called to run the aforementioned program. >> >>Is there a way to have Ruby compiled into a stand alone PalmOS program, >>or would I have to port the interpreter to PalmOS? >> > According to the PalmOS documentation PalmOS has only very limited > heap space. The space is so limited that parsers generated with lex > and yacc are almost unusable. A port of ruby to PalmOS < 5 would be > probably a bit harder than to other platforms. (Unless you like such > challenges) Well it's be a fun project. The main issue is time (as it always is). This is why I was wondering if there was a way to turn a Ruby script into a non-interpreted executable. That is to say, rather than binding the interpreter to the script, compile it into bytecode. I suspect I'm barking up the wrong tree unless I hit the lottery and suddenly have a lot of available free time, being financially independent ;). Thanks for the tip. Regards, Mark Norton -- mnorton@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org