
Embedding and Extending Perl
Manning Publications (Publisher)
Published on 5. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
361 pages
978-1-930110-82-3 (ISBN)
Description
Extending and Embedding Perl explains how to expand the functionality and usefulness of the Perl programming language and how to use Perl from C programs. It begins simply but also covers complex issues using real code examples from the Perl source. *The book discusses how to write interfaces to C libraries (as well as C++ and Fortran libraries). It shows you how to implement Perl callbacks for C libraries, how to pass Perl hashes and arrays between Perl and C, and how to use the Perl Data Language infrastructure to improve the speed of array operations. *Additionally, the book peers under the hood to see how the Perl programming language really works by looking at the interpreter. *The make-up of Perl variables is discussed along with details on how a Perl program is parsed and converted to executable code.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-930110-82-3 (9781930110823)
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Persons
A Perl developer for 7 years, Tim Jenness has ten modules on CPAN including two that are distributed as part of the core Perl distribution (File::Temp and Pod::LateX). Simon Cozens the author of Beginning Perl, was the release manager for the first four releases of the Perl 6 runtime engine, Parrot.