[Boost-users] Feature for using C++ as script language

Hi, After I discovered Boost, which has regex and filesystem libraries, I decided to use C++ for tasks that I usually do with Ruby (a Perl-like language), because I know C++ a lot better than other languages. However, there's a feature of those languages I miss: the ability to call external programs and get the output as a string. Does any of Boost libraries (or other free libraries you know) have this capability? Thanks, Maurício