Other Android-Ported Languages
As the hulking legacy of desktop computing continues to give way to the more nimble generation of mobile devices, developers will continue to seek out and ideally invent new languages that take into account these new platform display and resource constraints. Just as Dennis Richie invented the C language to support the shift to Unix, someone will no doubt crack the new language nut that will become the baseline upon which future programming paradigms will be constructed. In the meantime, we will contend with the advantages and disadvantages of today’s popular languages during this postdesktop transition phase.
So far, we have considered only the more popular languages that can be hosted within the SL4A shell. ...
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