Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

* Perrin Harkins (perrin@xxxxxxxx) [31 Oct 2002 14:26]:

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> Have you written C extensions for both Perl and PHP and think Perl is
> easier?

I've only written XS for Perl. Not touched PHP with any C stuff. While I
must admit that my early XS was crap, that's mostly my fault.

Last time I looked at PHP, a while ago I admit, to extend it with C you
had to recompile the lot. Has that changed?

> Most people complain about XS being challenging.

XS isn't that challenging if you read the documentation. In particular,
that shiny new Jenness and Cozens book "Extending and Embedding Perl".

> The picture might be different when SWIG and Inline::C are taken into
> account, but I've never used them so I couldn't say.

I find it's useful to know XS to use Inline::C. SWIG, since it's not
Perl oriented, is possibly easiest. I'm not sure since I've not used it
to any extent.

> In general, it makes sense that a simple language would be simple to
> extend with C. That's why people like TCL.

They do? =)



cheers,
-- 
Iain.