From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T13:13:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Perl Integration

 --- "John W. Long" <ng@johnwlong.com> wrote: 

> I've seen several Ruby projects that are merely ports of Perl Libraries.
> It
> seems like this process might be made easier if you could write a Ruby
> wrapper for an existing Perl library and then gradually rewrite the code
> in
> Ruby as you have the time. Perl integration with Ruby would also make it
> easier for people to port their existing Perl applications to Ruby.

This is harder than it sounds, especially with perl as TMTOWTDI. You'd
have to try and cater for different constructs...not easy.

-- Thomas Adam

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