The Register: Symbian to Make Psion’s OPL Dev Language Open Source

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]

“You’ve quite possibly never heard of OPL, but once upon a time
this wouldn’t have been the case. Back before Palm was thought of,
OPL was the easy to use development language for Psion EPOC
devices, and until events (and indeed Palm) largely overwhelmed
Psion, there was quite a thriving community of small developers and
enthusiasts using OPL, and bitching about Psion in pretty much the
same way as Apple fans bitch about Apple.

“And now, OPL is going Open Source–apparently on the say-so of
Symbian. News of the move was broken on by All About Symbian by
Ewan Spence of freEPOC.org, who says All About Symbian is going to
be involved in the planning of turning OPL into an Open Source
project. Symbian apparently intends to get OPL running on Series 60
and UIQ platforms, which at least in theory means that people
who’ve developed for Psions in the past will be able to resume
hostilities on Sony-Ericsson, Nokia and Nokia’s friends’
phones…”

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