using common lisp with python.
Mike Meyer
mwm at mired.org
Mon Aug 29 20:30:42 EDT 2005
"cipherpunk at gmail.com" <cipherpunk at gmail.com> writes:
> Your best bet is probably to look into your LISP environment's FFI
> (Foreign Function Interface). Most LISP environments have some way to
> call C code directly. Insofar as going back the other way... that I'm
> a little more sketchy on. Guile (the Scheme compiler from GNU) is a
> strong contender, though. It's not Common LISP, but it's a LISP with
> copious documentation for how to call it from C.
I believe SCM is also extensible/embeddable - and is generally a more
complete LISP system than Guile. However, it's still Scheme instead of
CL.
> I really can't see a reason to use Python as a glue layer. I'd
> recommend rewriting your LISP code in Python before I'd recommend using
> Python to interface between Common LISP and C.
Agreed.
<mike
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