Re^4: Where does Perl fit into OS X?

This is excellent feedback to my first questions. I'm still hoping someone can elaborate a bit on my third. Cheers,

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Re^5: Where does Perl fit into OS X? by adrianh (Chancellor) on Aug 15, 2005 at 17:11 UTC
I'm still hoping someone can elaborate a bit on my third. To be honest I'm not sure I understand it :-) Do the Carbon API's or Cocoa framework take the place of some of the "glue" functions that Perl would have been used for when developing with C, C++ or Java? Carbon/Cocoa are APIs to various Mac-like things. You can use CamelBones as a bridge to Objective-C that will enable you to easily (or, at least, fairly easily :-) get Cocoa and Perl to talk together. But I don't see how this relates to '"glue" functions that Perl would have been used for when developing with C, C++ or Java?' - or even what such things are :-)	[reply]

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Re^5: Where does Perl fit into OS X?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Aug 15, 2005 at 17:11 UTC

I'm still hoping someone can elaborate a bit on my third.

To be honest I'm not sure I understand it :-)

Do the Carbon API's or Cocoa framework take the place of some of the "glue" functions that Perl would have been used for when developing with C, C++ or Java?

Carbon/Cocoa are APIs to various Mac-like things. You can use CamelBones as a bridge to Objective-C that will enable you to easily (or, at least, fairly easily :-) get Cocoa and Perl to talk together. But I don't see how this relates to '"glue" functions that Perl would have been used for when developing with C, C++ or Java?' - or even what such things are :-)

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