[ksh93-integration-discuss] [perf-discuss] Mapping C data structures to ksh93 nested variables..

[Shawn Walker]

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.

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