What are the differences between SWIG and Boost.Python?

[Mark Carter]

> There was a recent item on slashdot lamenting how much effort is wasted 
> in the free software community on reinventing the wheel, 

It would also help if we all wrote in the same programming language -
then people would only need to write libraries once. I intimated as
much in a casual post I made here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=pan.2003.04.05.12.33.23.954023%40knm.org.pl&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26group%3Dcomp.lang.misc

According to a respondent, we should all be writing in Lisp. 

Who knows, he might even be right.