Homebrew Is there a Perl interpreter or something of the sort for the DS?

[Deleted User]

So, as the title suggests, I'm looking for something like a Perl interpreter for the DS. I've been looking around for a bit but I can't seem to find anything.

 

[GreenStone99]

Perl is easy. Lua is also easy. We have lua on DS, thats gud

 

[Deleted User]

Perl is easy. Lua is also easy. We have lua on DS, thats gud

Every resource for learning Lua I've found teaches you something basic like printing text first and then immediately goes on to teach you some really advanced junk that I just can't wrap my head around.
I also already know a little Perl and have written something semi-functional in it.

 

[FAST6191]

A while back I attempted to find all the interpreted programming languages for the DS, http://gbatemp.net/threads/attempting-to-list-all-programming-languages-available-for-the-ds.357792/ was the result and no perl there. I have not seen a perl interpreter in the years since, though it is not impossible that I missed one.

 

[DanTheManMS]

It's possible via DSLinux, although I don't know if it will work without slot-2 RAM available, it's been a few years since I tried. I used it for this "text wrapping" Perl script to reformat text files for easier reading with other DS homebrew programs (actually come to think of it, I think it was specifically for use with the Supercard's in-game guide function which had no word wrapping). I found a copy of the binary file in one of my backups here on my computer, might upload to Filetrip if anyone reports it as still working. Put "perl" in the /usr/bin folder in the "linux" folder on the root of your SD card, and test with WRAPPER.PL and any random text file you wish to re-wrap. You'll want to use the "DLDI" version available at http://dslinux.org/builds/

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59972490/GBAandDS/perl
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59972490/GBAandDS/WRAPPER.PL

EDIT: Fast6191, looks like you did know about this at some point in time at least.

A while back I attempted to find all the interpreted programming languages for the DS, http://gbatemp.net/threads/attempting-to-list-all-programming-languages-available-for-the-ds.357792/ was the result and no perl there.

From that thread itself though:

However DSlinux should have a version of PERL available.