Re: Nokia will use Linux in phones?!
 

Well, it couldn't possibly be WORSE than C++ ... poorly conceived load of crap that that language is. I mean, really, what self respecting knowledgeable programmer _defends_ C++? That's like talking about the merits of smoking: "Well, it's not as sure-fire suicide as shooting yourself in the head!"

If you want something that manages complexity use a REAL OOPL, not a half-assed OOPL that wouldn't know dynamic/late binding if it was bit in the *** by a dynamic binding runtime environment.

C++ : Programming Languages :: MS-Windows : Operating Systems

Re: Nokia will use Linux in phones?!
 

While this is kind of off-topic as far as this thread is concerned, I have to admit that some aspects of C++, such as data and functionality encapsulation, are actually useful, especially for a complex programming framework like GTK or QT. Claiming C++ to be a standard of OOP implementation is, of course, silly. It's not real OOP.

Re: Nokia will use Linux in phones?!
 

QT developers: Everything must be C++!
GTK+: Everything in that language thats best for it.

For the most things C++ is overloaded and languages like python make more sense.

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Which is, most of the time, C. And of course, you can bind QT to Python:

http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/.../pyqt4ref.html

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Or Vala :)

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Yup, this is the most important thing to understand.

You can't just slap an OS on top of a phone, you need to do a heck of a lot of work on the behind-the-scenes stuff such as allowing the computing part of the device talk to the telephony part. It's not a trivial task.

This is probably why the iPhone had such restricted telephony features, because Apple were totally new to the phone world and they hadn't been able to fully develop OSX as a mobile OS. It will take time for them to match the features available on existing platforms.

The success of Symbian is partly because it was developed for mobile devices from the ground up, and they've spent years enhancing it entirely with phones in mind. Symbian has never been used on anything other than phones, and it's jointly owned by mobile phone manufacturers. It's the world's most developed pure phone OS, which is why so many smartphones use it.

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Even Reuters claims the same,

http://ca.reuters.com/article/techno...07696020080520

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Um... You do know that Symbian started life as Psion's SIBO and EPOC operating systems and that the only reason it's such a good telephony OS is because Psion made a heck of an OS to start with?

To say that Symbian hasn't been used on anything but phones is only correct in the sense that it wasn't called "Symbian" when it was installed on non-phones.

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I can't speak for krisse, but it seems to me that he knows that; note the distinction "developed for mobile devices" vs. "enhancing it entirely with phones in mind". Maybe I'm reading too much into it. It looks like the kind of technically correct, but minimally attention-drawing, sort of statement I make when I don't feel like explaining the whole back-story of something. It also looks like blind luck, of course.

Krisse?

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I just wanted to make clear that Symbian wasn't so much developed for phones, as adapted to them. In that aspect at least, it's not much different from Linux. Or OSX for that matter.