>>>>> "B" == Ben Tilly <ben_tilly / hotmail.com> writes: B> Anyone who does should read B> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/~poffice/mail/ruby-talk/8379 The problem is here >> The point of this is to make it very easy to extend Perl with C actually *it very easy* to extend Ruby with C Inline.pm try to solve a perl problem (at least with 'use Inline C') which don't exist in ruby. Guy Decoux