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A recently posted question on Stack Overflow highlighted a common misconception about the role of pointers and arrays held by many programmers learning C.

One of newLisp’s out-of-the-box features is its foreign function interface. It is simple to use, requiring only a minimal knowledge of C and a willingness to read documentation. Submit article

For the past few days have been spent trying to get the newLISP MySQL module to work with the 64-bit version of the libmysqlclient library. Here is what I did to get things working properly. Submit article

Among the various methods of extending Python about which I have written, Python 2.5′s ctypes module is possibly the easiest. Submit article

In a previous entry, I showed how to extend Python without directly using the Python C using SWIG. SWIG parses an interface file written by the programmer and then outputs a wrapper module. A more elegant, more pythonic solution might be a parser which allows a C module to be written directly in Python. Pyrex [...]