A lisp oriented question - interning symbols for use in Maxima
Subject: A lisp oriented question - interning symbols for use in Maxima
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:31:03 -0400
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
> ...In order to move FFI stuff into maxima/src we would want to make
> sure it works for all supported Lisps. That includes GCL at present,
> but it seems plausible that it might not in the not-so-distant future....
>
Have we identified a free, Maxima-compatible Lisp that is portable across
Windows/Linux/Mac and has reasonable performance? It would be really nice
if it supported CFFI, obviously....
I recall that ECL was proposed at one point, but if I remember correctly, it
had a fatal flaw in its handling of stack overflow, which its developers
didn't seem to intend to fix. Has that changed?
SBCL is still characterized as 'experimental' on Windows.
Clojure, anyone? (But it is a Lisp 1...)
-s