Re: Why Images Bother People (or, at least me)

[Piers Cawley <address@hidden>]

Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu> writes:
> I guess the ideal would be a system that would use a C library for speed if
> it was available, but if not would use a library written in its own
> language (here, Smalltalk).
>

Perl has historically done a lot of this kind of work, several
normally C based modules have 'pure Perl' versions that don't need
library support or compilers to install but which are usually lots slower. 

-- 
Piers