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Comment on Touch based WP7 programing environment and language by Microsoft Research

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It has some nice UI ideas - I particularly like the idea of calculator-like editor.

Environments with limited text input ability get significant advantage from staticaly (or at least strong) typed languages - code autocomplete is really killer weapon when editing text.

As a sidenote something similar can be achieved on Android phones using Touchqode [1] and Scripting Layer For Android [2]. It does not have specific language but you can use any of its supported languages - Python, Ruby, BeanShell (Java), Rhino (JavaScript)

Disclaimer: I work on touchqode

[1] http://www.touchqode.com [2] http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

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