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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Pert-bindings
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-02-14 4:57:57
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On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Could you explain the net advantages of language bindings? PLEASE note
> > that I'm really naive in this field and I'd really like to understand why
> > people need bindings for exotic languages into a graphics widget set.
> > 
> > I understand the need of a scripting language to automate tasks in an
> > *installed* desk env. But for buildin the desk env?
> 
> C++ is a big step up from C in programming level in many ways, but is
> still left behind by most scripting languages. For example, here is a
> simplified but effective way to look up which rpms you have in your system
> in perl: 
> 
> open( INST, "rpm -qa|") || die "can't read rpm list"; 
> 
> while( <INST> ) { 
>         next unless /^([^\d]+)-(\d.*)-(\d+)$/; 
> 
>         $version{ $1 } = $2; 
>         $release{ $1 } = $3; 
> }
> 
> # display version and release of installed tetex
> 
> print "tetex is version ", $version{ 'tetex' },
> 	" release ", $release{ 'tetex' }, "\n";
> 
> # all installed rpms (sorted)
> 
> print join ( " ", sort keys %version ),"\n";
> 
> 
> Now how many lines would that take in C++? :) 

<perl-disliker-mode>
If I understood what it does, I would tell you ;-)
</perl-disliker-mode>

> Combined with a decent GUI
> toolkit, creating small and useful graphical apps is a snap. 

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