Perl && C/C++

[Jeffrey Butera]

Can anyone shed any light on calling C/C++ functions from Perl?
I'm sure it can be done, but I'd like to know how straightforward
it is, and how you pass data types from C/C++ to perl that are
"perl friendly".

Thanks,
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Jeff Butera, Ph.D.
Administrative Systems (Computing)
Hampshire College
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