Re: Need general guidelines and book suggestions

Lyn A Headley <laheadle@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:


> don't write your own language!
>
> Other existing extension languages are Scheme (mzscheme is a good
> implementation, available from Rice university for free.) and Lua,
> the smallest, simplest, fastest non-scheme extension language.
>
> and in case you didn't reread your own post, John the moderator
> suggested Python and (ick) Tcl. And I guess (ick) Perl is an option
> too. personally, I would choose either Python or Lua, depending on
> your needs.


You should check out SWIG (Simple Wrapper and Interface Generator ---
or something like that). Check out ftp.cs.utah.edu:/pub/beazley/SWIG.


This is a very nice tool for building extension language interfaces to
C/C++ systems. I've used it for the last year. It doesn't do
everything I want, but I want a lot, so that's ok. What it does do,
it does well. It builds interfaces to perl4, perl5, tcl, guile (GNU
scheme), and python, and has an experimental code writer to create an
interface to java. David Beazley, the author, is quite prolific, and
I think there might some interesting things planned for the future.


Hope this helps.


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