One other thing

[Michael M. Tiller]

Has anybody considered using SWIG?  Check out http://www.swig.org for
more information.

Basically, SWIG is a wrapper generator that can read C/C++ header
files and generate wrapper code to various scripting languages like
Tcl, Perl and Python.  SWIG is useful even if you only intend to use
one scripting language because it does lots of tedious code
generation.

Just a thought...

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Mike