Perl as an Embedded Language
Dominik Brettnacher · 2004
The second part of the seminar on Configurable Systems dealt with programming languages that were specifically designed for embedding into applications. Unlike these languages, Perl was primarily designed as a language for extracting and processing information, while the idea of embedding Perl only came up later. In the following, I will compare the Perl language as well as its API with Tcl, Scheme and Lua. Furthermore, I will present a Perlenhanced Network Monitor as an example for an application that benefits from a scripting language.