SPUG: May 16 Meeting: Extending Perl with C

[Neil Best]

Hello, all.  I am curious about the topic of tonight's
meeting, but I'm not sure if it will address my
particular interest.  I am hoping to ellicit some
comments from the collective.

My colleague has developed a nice piece of fortran
code for hydrodynamic simulations, but it is rather
cumbersome to use, as you might imagine, requiring
preparation of input text files and parsing of massive
output files.  Perl has helped immensely in this
respect, but I imagine a brave future of radio buttons
and drop-down menus for this software.

Does perl do fortran?

I once corresponded with an astronomer in Oklahoma who
said that he could wrap a fortran sub with C and call
it from perl, but it turned out to be too slow for his
purposes.  How can we come up with something that is
viable for high-performance computing?

Who can convince me to attend?  Thanks.

Neil Best
Ocean Engineer

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--- Tim Maher/CONSULTIX <tim at consultix-inc.com> wrote:
>            MAY 2000 Seattle Perl User's Group
> Meeting
>      
>
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>      Topic: Intro. to Extending Perl with the C
> Language
>    Speaker: Brian Ingerson, EpixTech
>       Time: May 16th 2000 (Third Tuesday), 7pm-9pm
>   LOCATION: Union Bank of California Bldg, 5th Floor
> Mtg Room
>       Cost: Free
>  
> Brian Ingerson (b.ingerson at epixtech.com) will cover
> the basics of
> writing Perl Modules in the C language.


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