Thank you Tachyon and to everyone who helped to shed some light on my question about C embedded into Perl. I was not aware of the tools available for working with C code, and you have all taught me some good things. I have to admit , I am probably a bit of an oddballish programmer. I start my apps with a picture in mind , and procede to develop a tool in somewhat bruteforce fashion, which in the end does what's required of it, looks and feels good on the outside. I know Perl better now than any other programming language and have developed some powerful tools using Perl/Tk. I've read "C" and understand the fundamentals of the language but have not programmed extensively with it. I used to write code using Unix C-Shell & nawk but am trying to replace all that with Perl now. In the beginning I wondered just how much can one do with Perl/Tk. Initially , it seemed to me that it would be a limited tool in terms of creating GUI's and interacting with various data , but I have been able to "craft" the pictures in my mind into code quite nicely over time.... What are Perl's limits ? Are there things one can do using C / C++ say that could not be done using Perl ? Cheers, sgc

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