A lisp oriented question - interning symbols for use in Maxima

Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at stericsson.com> writes:

> Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Robert Dodier
>> <robert.dodier at gmail.com <mailto: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?
> Would CCL (Clozure Common Lisp) work?  The website says it works on
> windows/linux/mac.

The world isn't "windows/linux/mac", ECL is far more portable.


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