Lisp as scripting language (vs. python or perl orl)

Richard Fateman writes:

> But common lisp does not have a standard for this kind of linking. An
> attempt to cover all the details has been attempted at least twice (UFFI,
> CFFI) but GCL has apparently not been included, if I understand the
> situation. Since GCL is used by xmaxima, any solution that does not include
> GCL is disqualified. 

This is not quite true.  Xmaxima doesn't need GCL.
It works with any Lisp supported by Maxima.
Maybe you mean Windows port of Maxima?
Here indeed GCL was the only free Lisp implementation
allowing to build standalone Windows Maxima
which doesn't need any extra libraries (like cygwin)
to run.  But now sbcl for Windows is available as
well.

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