Python as Glue Language

[Garry Knight]

In message <40674ad7$1 at news.unimelb.edu.au>, Maurice LING wrote:

>  From the documentations, it did mention that python is a good glue
> language. What does it really means by "glue language"?

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]

glue language
        <language> Any language, usually a scripting language, used
        to write glue to integrate tools and other programs to solve
        some problem.
        (1999-02-22)

glue
        <jargon> A generic term for any interface logic or protocol
        that connects two component blocks.  For example, Blue Glue
        is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything
        used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks "glue logic".
        (1999-02-22)

> Does it means interfacing between modules of different languages?

Interfacing between anything that takes an input and yields an output,
including scripts written in other languages, shell commands, executables,
etc.

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