Inline::SLang.0.20

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Software Name: Inline::SLang.0.20

Contributor: Doug Burke

Date submitted to the Contributed Software site: 8/6/2003

Institution: CfA

Software Description: The Inline::SLang module lets you write Perl subroutines in S-Lang. It dynamically translates the parameters and return values into native data types for both languages (or into Perl classes that are used to represent S-Lang types with no direct translation to Perl). This allows you to write a Perl script that uses the functions provided by the S-Lang modules in CIAO 3.0. The software requires CIAO 3.0, a fairly recent installation of Perl, the Perl Inline module, and will use the Perl Data Language (PDL) if installed.

Web page on which software and information is available: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~dburke/perl-slang/

Operating system(s) on which the software will run:

• Solaris and Linux. Alpha and Mac OSX support is currently untested.

Language used: Perl and C