Inline is one of those potentially killer apps for Perl. It enables you to bind just about anything you feel like to perl, and access it as native function calls from with your perl program. It started out as an idea to make it so compellingly easy to bind other programming languages to Perl, that Perl could then take over the world ( okay I’m starting to exagerate now ), but it has become more than that. People are now starting to wakeup to the idea of bind other things like SQL, and query languages, through to text processing tools and the like … see this .
As a celebration, of what can be developed easily with Inline::C I dug out the source code of the old UNIX command line tool cal, turned it into a library, and bound it into a Perl module UNIX::Cal available at a CPAN near you - UNIX::Cal

Posted by PiersHarding at May 14, 2002 9:39 PM