Subject: maxima -> clojure for Google Summer of Code
From: R Fateman
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:15:10 -0400
I have not confirmed it, but "armed bear common lisp" claims to run
Maxima, and translates into the Java virtual machine.
So maybe this is unnecessary.
Clojure implementation of Maxima would most probably consist of writing
macros or other hacks in Clojure to support Common Lisp, and would not
require much if any change to Maxima. just a lot of mess, converting a
lisp-1 so it supports lisp-2 code.
.The disadvantage might be that for any platform for which clojure
works, there will be a faster implementation of Maxima.
I think that some of the existing lisp implementations allow access to
Java already. It doesn't seem to have mattered except for
the front ends perhaps.
Daniel Monte Alto wrote:
> Perhaps someone should consider interesting submitting a version of
> maxima in the clojure language for the Google Summer of Code.
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> The advantages are the good integration with the Java libraries and that
> there is only one implementation of clojure so there is not the nightmare
> maintaining all those different versions.
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