38.1. Introducing Inline.pm

Inspired by the many presentations of Damian Conway at the Perl Conference 4.0, I decided to create a module that would let me include other programming languages directly in my Perl code in much the same manner shown above. What impressed me about Damian’s modules was that he coupled problems of immense magnitude with solutions of equal simplicity, or in Damian’s words “DWIMity” (Do What I Mean). I decided to call this module “Inline.” It is fitting that much of the work done by this module is accomplished with Damian’s Parse::RecDescent module, described in the article Parsing.

Inline works on all flavors of Unix, Linux, and Windows. Read the Inline documentation for installation information.