I just fell into an argument with a coworker.
Question: Why program heterogenously (say, with Inline::CPP), and
not just program in C++ alone?
I argued that (a) it is a matter of preference, do what you want,
and (b), I just can't believe some things (mostly related to I/O
and text parsing) are as simple in C++ as Perl, while other things
are clearly more speedy in C or C++, and (c) if you want a GUI,
Perl/TK is cross platform and Visual C++ isn't.
I wonder what some of you Inliner's would have to say to a person
who argues that C++ alone is as good or better than mixing Perl
and C++ through Inline or other XS technologies?
Eric
