On Tuesday 17 December 2002 04:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > I think Perl actually made me a better C programmer, but it is sometimes > frustrating going down to the level of C. Keep your hand in with XS > programming :-)
what is XS programming? > Yes. And occassionally even if there isn't. Perl 5 uses reference > counting, and so you have to make your own provisions for destroying > circular data structures. oh oh, can you give an example? =) like a simple linked list setup (dunno why you ever wanna do that in perl, but...for education purposes...) > We don't call it abuse. It's just programming the way you think you > should rather than the way the language thinks you should :-) hehe, right, i was kinda making a funny...=) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
