Another approach you could use is to create a 'C' code generator that parses a file with a list of actions and generates the 'C' code necessary to perform those actions. 'Advanced Perl Programming' By Sriram Srinivasan, has a chapter about this and if you go to the examples section, you can download the code for 'jeeves' which is the code generator that he wrote about.

You may be able to use Inline::C to run these routines too.

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