Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to thank you very much for the provision of the wonderful Perl XS system.
I have only started to (ab)use it recently but it is so nice to be able to call existing library functions from Perl without the things I would find difficult if not impossible to do myself (generating the Makefile especially). Perl XS is there and it is relatively straightforward to use. The advantages are many :- 1 Reducing development infrastructure in reusing existing code 2 Reducing development infrastructure in testing. Even if you were developing exclusively in C you may want a Perl XS to interface to a Perl test harness 3 A much gentler and more stimulating introduction into the real guts of C (as I see it), namely memory ownership and managment 4 The potential to create a better interface than the existing library. 5 Being able to turbocharge C by calling Perl from within C (perl_eval_pv and friends). I am very grateful and impressed. Thank you, Yours sincerely -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne.
