On May 26, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Michael Mathews wrote:
I use the expat and libxslt libraries (both in C) regularly via perl,
so I guess I must agree that there is a distinction -- thank you for
clarifying that. But I can't think of any examples where I was stuck
because I couldn't use a "library" only available in, say Python, or
JavaScript in my Perl. But then I'm seeking to learn here so can you
give a nice juicy example of a non-C library that would be a big plus
to be able to include in Perl?
I have a real-world example from my work. Perl lacked a library for
parsing and editing Macromedia FLV files. There was one in Ruby[1],
but the rest of my code was written in Perl. So, I created the FLV-
Info library[2]. It's pretty nice for reading FLVs IMHO, but has no
edit features due to my time constraints. If I were working in the
magic future where Perl and Ruby are bytecode compatible, perhaps I
would have just interfaced with the Ruby library directly instead of
having to reinvent it, saving a couple of days of coding and debugging.
[1] http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2
[2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/FLV-Info/
Chris
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