Perl coming to Android phones

Android is an operating system for mobile phones that runs a modified Linux kernel and the Java environment. The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) allows you to edit and execute scripts directly on the Android device. Until now only Python, Lua and BeanShell were supported, but a request was filed to add Perl as well. Recently, support for Perl was added to the development tree, and today that feature request was closed, and is part of OSE 0.11 alpha.

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