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Ars Technica: Developing Games with Perl and SDL

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 17, 2006

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“SDL_Perl is a perl interface to the Simple DirectMedia Library.
It is composed of a both a XS wrapper to the SDL libraries and a
series of Perl modules that export SDL functionality in an
object-oriented fashion.

“One of the biggest benefits of using SDL is that it allows
portable media applications to be written without having to be
concerned with specific implmentations of media libraries for each
target platform…”

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