Pure Perl is awesome. But often there are situartions where Pure Perl™ means that your program will either be slow, or it will not comply with industry standards. On the other hand, using battle tested open source libraries is a sane choice, but implementing the bindings to a language like Perl can be quite challenging. This talk is a walk-through this business, illustrating the bindings to the library libxml.
Speakers: Tobias 'FROGGS' Leich