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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
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Subject: Re: Android?Why Dalvik?
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 11:22:00 -0700
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In article <irvift$98d$2@lust.ihug.co.nz>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro says...
> 
> In message <MPG.284ce826ee59e4e9989769@news.justthe.net>, Steve Sobol wrote:
> 
> > You write Android apps in Java (with the exception of some low-level
> > code which is written in C; I understand that's mostly done for games).
> 
> I see a lot of portable software also done in C. For example, the Python and 
> other interpreters used in the Scripting Layer for Android 
> <http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/> are largely unchanged C code 
> from their versions on other platforms.

Ah! I didn't even realized someone had ported the Python interpreter to 
Android. :)

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