B.24. EmbeddingThe reverse of dynamic loading (in a sense) is embedding. Suppose you want to make a cool word processor, and you start writing it in (say) C++.[
Though we don't know of such a word processor, some folks have used this technique to make other powerful programs. One such example is Apache's mod_perl, which embeds Perl into a powerful web server. If you're thinking about embedding Perl, you should check out mod_perl; since it's all open source, you can see how it works. |