Scripting C++ -- Boost.Python vs CORBA vs ???

[Magnus Lyckå]

Maybe you should have a look at weave?
http://www.scipy.org/site_content/weave

rasmussn at lanl.gov wrote:

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> On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 09:57 AM, Craig Maloney wrote:
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>> I'm doing some scientific computing and have
>> amassed a moderate set of classes.  Due to the
>> heavy computational demands, I don't think I
>> can justify rewriting everything in an interperated
>> language; nice as that would be now that I'm
>> playing around with what I've created.
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>> I would, of course, like to have some sort of scripted
>> environment (e.g. Python) in which to "play"
>> with my objects.
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>> I'm making essential use of templates and polymorphism.
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>> I have no experience with Boost.Python, but from what I
>> understand, it would not involve writing wrapper definitions
>> (ala SWIG or IDL), right?  Are there other options?
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> You should consider SILOON which was created for scripting
> scientific code.  It works particularly well with C++
> and works by parsing user source directly.  No wrapper definitions
> or IDL is required.  See http://www.acl.lanl.gov/siloon.
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> A new version is coming out in a couple of months which generates
> Python extensions for Fortran 95 (again by parsing user source
> code to discover Fortran procedures to export to Python).
> 
>> Or should I just wait for .NET/mono to come out? ;)
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> Of course.
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> Craig
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