Re^2: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018

I've seen what can be done with the inline modules even in Perl 5. It gives me something to think about.

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Re^3: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 15, 2018 at 09:27 UTC
I've seen what can be done with the inline modules even in Perl 5 XS and Inline::C (which is essentially the same) are things that I find very attractive about perl 5, as accessing C routines by writing perl programs is far more appealing than accessing C routines by writing C programs. Of course, other languages also provide interfaces to C but I don't know how they compare with perl's C interface as I've not yet felt the need to investigate the alternatives. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by Crosis (Beadle) on Apr 15, 2018 at 09:45 UTC
That I'm aware of, there's Cython and there's also a Scheme dialect called Chicken that compiles to C.	[reply]

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