From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-06-08T15:50:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Building a business case for Ruby

Stephen Kellett ha scritto:
> In message <42A5E046.1080003@hibbs.com>, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> writes
> 
>> I like the way that Ruby extensions appear (to a Ruby program) to be a 
>> *real* Ruby object/class, no different than if I had coded it in Ruby.
>>
>> I'm interested to know if the same thing true of Python extensions?
> 
> 
> For the work I was doing, Python had the same qualities you describe. It 
> was amazing how similar the process was. But what I was doing wasn't a 
> huge extension, just some wrappers to calls written in C++.
> 
> If I get to do something more complex for both languages I'll provide 
> more feedback.

well, but IIRC python's extensions have this bad thing that you have to 
handle the refcounting by yourself instead of relying on a real gc, am I 
wrong?