On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:48:49PM +0000, Graham Klyne wrote:
At 20:15 21/01/05 +0000, John Goerzen wrote:
I have built a fixed Hugs for the Zaurus PDA running the OpenZaurus distribution. Download here: http://quux.org/devel/zaurus/hugs_hugs98-Nov2003-r1_arm.ipk
Cool!
I've often thought Haskell should be a good language for programming PDA functions, as a kind of super-calculator. Now I've seen versions mentioned for two PDAs, but no Palm yet.
Out of curiosity, do you know what the other PDA is? I suspect the reason there's nothing for Palm is because one probably can't just port to it in the normal sense. For isntance, until recently, PalmOS had no notion of a filesystem, though it does have simplistic database functions built in and a type/creator thing similar to older versions of MacOS. Memory is also quite constrained on many Palms, and I think management is different than in standard C, but I'm not certain of that. The port to Zaurus is easy because it is a real OS (Linux) on it. Even comes with a terminal emulator. And one can run Debian or X (www.pdaxrom.org) on it, too. It's a good PDA for a geek :-) -- John