Lars Appel wrote:
> Showing my Perl ignorance... Can Perl programs call intrinsics,
> ahem, external subroutines from an XL (or .sl in Posix speak)?

Perl supports an "extension" API (.xs) whereby Perl can call C code residing in
NMXLs.

It would be possible for somebody with sufficient free time to write an MPE .xs
consisting of Perl C API stubs that called MPE intrinsics (or TurboImage
procedures).

For more info, please see:

http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlxstut.html

- Mark B. (catching up on a couple thousand e-mail messages)