Python as Glue Language

[Paul Prescod]

Maurice LING wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
>  From the documentations, it did mention that python is a good glue 
> language. What does it really means by "glue language"? Does it means 
> interfacing between modules of different languages? How does that work? 
> Because it seems that only C is mentioned in the documentations and I'm 
> not quite interested to program in C unless absolutely essential.

Not just C, but also C++, VB and C# (via COM and Python.NET), Java (via 
Jython and JPE), Fortran (via PyFort) and anything else in the world via 
sockets, files, pipes, shared memory, web services, standard Internet 
protocols etc.

Python is good for gluing almost anything to almost anything in large 
part because the Python community makes bridges to every interesting 
technology in the universe.

  Paul Prescod