From: Stephen Kellett Date: 2005-06-08T18:10:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Building a business case for Ruby In message , gabriele renzi writes >> 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? I think you may be right, but for the work I was doing, the process was very similar for both languages. Thats why I made the comment about doing something more complex. Not all extensions involve creating objects. Stephen -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/software.html Computer Consultancy, Software Development Windows C++, Java, Assembler, Performance Analysis, Troubleshooting