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From: Robert Barta <rho@bigpond.net.au>
To: Paul Craven <pcraven@yorku.ca>
Cc: prolog@swi.psy.uva.nl, rho@bigpond.net.au
Subject: Re: [SWIPL] SWI-Prolog interface with Perl
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In-Reply-To: <EBEMJEHNBDNCGMKKBIBLAEDHCAAA.pcraven@yorku.ca>; from pcraven@yorku.ca on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:30:38AM -0500

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:30:38AM -0500, Paul Craven wrote:
> I would also be interested in a Perl interface.  I have a research
> application with Perl and Prolog components hooked together by pipes
> and relying on intermediate data files, but a (simple but) more 
> efficient way of calling one set of routines from the other and passing 
> data between them would be welcome.

Actually, we were thinking to build an XS interface in the next months.
A master's student is currently looking at that. Our objective is to use 
Prolog-ish features for a TopicMap query processor.

My experience with XS is zero, though, and if I were you, I would not
hold my breath.... :-)

\rho

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: stefan.bott@iula.upf.es [mailto:stefan.bott@iula.upf.es]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:13 AM
> > To: prolog@swi.psy.uva.nl
> > Subject: [SWIPL] SWI-Prolog interface with Perl
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Yesteday I had a hard time trying to build a Perl interface with SWIPL,
> > using the C-interface SWIPL provides. Well, before I go on trying I
> > wanted to ask if anyone knows if such an interface is already available
> > somewhere. Or is there anyone who has done this before and can tell me
> > how to build one myself (maybe using Perls h2xs as I tried without
> > sucess).
> > 
> > Bye and thanks.
> > 
> > Stefan
> > 
> > 
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