From: Ryan Davis <ryand@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T02:43:00+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyInline 1.0.4 Released! (fwd)


On Wednesday, Sep 11, 2002, at 05:16 US/Pacific, Mike Stok wrote:

> In article <alls6501s0h@enews3.newsguy.com>, Phil Tomson wrote:
>> Perl has Inline modules available for several languages including 
>> Ruby (as
>> shown above by Pat).  Now it might be nice to have a RubyInline::Perl
>> module so people can make use of legacy Perl code in their Ruby apps.
>
> .... especially if "legacy Perl code" includes CPAN ;-)

Well, the current RubyInline is ~50x smaller than the code involved for 
Inline::C (and family--the parts that come with it) in perl (72 lines 
compared to 3314). I'd really like to keep this as small and clean as 
possible. I don't know if extending this for every language under the 
sun will allow this effort to stay small and clean.