Perl programming on MPE/iX - February 2001

February 9, 2001
Solution Symposium
Page 33
hp e3000
perl
programming
perl extensions
• binary code residing in an external NMXL loaded at run time
• a thin layer of C that allows the Perl interpreter to call compiled
code written in other languages
• several extension libraries come bundled with Perl (sockets,
POSIX, etc)
• a decent tutorial is available - the examples even work on MPE!
• http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlxstut.html
• this is how you would do it to add support for intrinsics or
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