From: Yohanes Santoso <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-06-27T03:59:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Palm Distro

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Palm Distro"
>     on 02/06/27, lagi@yasoo.co.uk <lagi@yasoo.co.uk> writes:
> 
> |Is there aversion of ruby that will run on the palm pilot?
> |It seems that it should be small enough - or is the PP
> |not powerful enough to run Ruby at an acceptable speed..
> 
> Unfortunately, Ruby highly depends on C model.  Palm does not have
> even stdio.   If someone has brilliant idea, tell me.  I really like
> to see Ruby runs on my visor edge.

I have some Palm programming experience. Depending on which compiler
you use, you may or may not have stdio emulated. I've been using
PRC-Tools and this page is really helpful as an overview:
http://tangentsoft.net/palmfaq/articles/stdlib.html

I think beside the size issue, ruby on palm should be feasible, but
perhaps it will introduce too many #ifdef's in the code.

YS.