[LAU] Script processing on Linux? Ruby?

[Rustom Mody]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder at lavabit.com>wrote:

> Excerpts from John List's message of 2010-09-25 22:37:58 +0200:
> > On 09/25/2010 02:21 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > I thought I would like to learn some other language, either
> > > python, ruby, Tcl or Forth, but usually I have some
> > > practical problem to get done, and the more familiar
> > > language gets used.
> > >
> > I'm in the same situation. I've boiled it down to choosing between
> learning Python or learning Ruby.
> >
> > So ... we've been talking about Perl and Python. Does anyone have any
> observations on how Ruby fits (or doesn't) into this picture?
> > -Can it be used for scripting (the original subject)?
> > -Is it as C-compatible as Python?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
>

For C (and C++) interfacing, python has a variety of styles ranging across
- the basic (builtin) C interface
- ctypes
- pyrex and cython
- swig, sip
- SCXX, PyCXX,
- Boost

(I think Ive missed a couple :-)
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