Following on from the news that StyleTap is currently porting its Palm OS application emulator to Symbian comes news that NS Basic (a popular BASIC langauge for the Palm OS) will use the StyleTap technology to enable NS Basic applications to run on S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3 devices.
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Hi,
Not so long ago I described a similar solution, that brings Basic to almost every Java ME equipped device:
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&blogId=15055&articleId=696
It's called CellularBASIC and it's an open source project. The scripting language is a dialect of QBASIC 1.1, supporting more than 90 keywords, along with some special features (64-floating point arithmetic, trigonometric, screen I/O, file I/O, SMS sending, network programming, graphics...). I agree that CellularBasic is 'less attractive' than NSBasic for S60 and UIQ, but for many purposes it works well (and not only on S60 and UIQ, because it's J2ME).
BR,
JW
Nice to see more options but the Python for S60 is much more up to date as a language and very nicely implemented.