Matthew Cline wrote:
> But if Perl6 is changed so that you can write extensions in plain old C
> (without using something like Inline), it seems certain that there'd be some
> XS compatability tool, so as to not break all the current XS code out there.
> So then we could have three ways of writing an extension: straight C, XS, and
> Inline. Hmmm.... There's More Than One Way To Do It? ;-)
>
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> Matthew Cline | Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that
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> | myself. -- Mark Twain
C is very skeletal. Once you hang enough meat on it that you have something
you can really do stuff with (besides build tools) you're no longer working
with C, you're working with whatever you've built. XS or MFC, it seems to
be a whole new language. Language or dialect? Who cares?
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