A lisp oriented question - interning symbols for use in Maxima

?iga Lenar?i? wrote:
>
> A rewrite in Clojure is probably not worth it (and even not possible  
> without some devoted programmers with a lot of time on their hands).  
> I think it's better to stick to CL since fast implementations are  
> already available and accessing C libraries is not an issue in any CL  
> implementation but GCL - if Maxima would benefit from external  
>   
Just to be clear lest we spread more fud, gcl does have a foreign
function interface.  It's just that CFFI doesn't support gcl.

Having said that, I have not been able to use gcl's FFI to interface to
anything, even something as simple as mkdir.

Ray