Re: Lua wrappers

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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Damien wrote:
> > 
> > why not code a wrapper for perl or python? they are just as good as lua for
> > embedded scripting. I know perl comes with a library specifically for that
> > purpose,
> > and I'm pretty sure python might.
> 
> Python perhaps, but I'm not aware of any embeddable perl distributions.  
> Although Lua was designed expressly for embedding.  More interesting I think
> would be to modify the PD Euphoria source to be embedded.
> 
> Matt Lewis

Any program can link with libperl.[so|dll] to be able to interpret Perl in 
your app, but I agree with the other posters, Perl is just too big and Lua
is tailor made for such use.

Perl's not <i>that</i> complicated though :)

Gary

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