On 24/08/07, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 19/07/07, Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> wrote: > > > * Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> [2007-07-19 17:01]: > > > > Alexander Kolbasov wrote: > > > > > > "Richard L. Hamilton" wrote: > [snip] > > > There's probably a good online introduction, but the basics are > > > already on your system > > > > > > $ which perldoc > > > /usr/perl5/bin/perldoc > > > $ perldoc perlxs > > > $ perldoc perlxstut > > > $ perldoc perlapi > > > $ perldoc perlguts > > > > What Stephen says is true; it isn't pretty and you may lose your sanity. > > > > You will also become quite familiar with the source code of perl > > understanding their rather complex casting system for accessing data > > types through perl / XS. > > > > Finally, you will become quite familiar with rather aptly selected > > passages from the "Lord of the Rings" that are littered throughout the > > source code, usually in the header :) > > Mhhh... are there other languages which have "better" concepts for > language bindings ?
Python, in my opinion, usually seems to have the best bindings. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
