In message <c715e6405060313335c5be6c7 / mail.gmail.com>, Joe Van Dyk 
<joevandyk / gmail.com> writes
>1)  C extensions allow us to easily integrate with external existing
>software, but I don't know how Perl or Python does in that respect.

Having recently written some Ruby and Python extensions I'd say they are 
about the same level of complexity. The extensions I wrote did the same 
thing for each language and took roughly the same amount of time. The 
Python extension used a bit less code and was easier to write, but the 
differences are trivial and not worth arguing over.

Perl? I haven't written an extension for it, so no comment.

Stephen
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