Hi,
Is there any hope that CLPython will be ported to other lisps (gcl, clisp, sbcl)? I have been advocating python as a language for maxima. Maxima (maxima.sf.net) is a very powerful GPL'ed computer algebra system that is written in CL. On top on the underlying CL implementation it also supports an algol like programming language ("the maxima language") which however has serious problems (you can check the discussions on the maxima mailing list about this).
I think that it would be good to have python available as a second (algol like) language for maxima. Python is a widely known language with well understood semantics. It seems that CLPython would fit the bill but unfortunately the fact that it runs only on one CL implementation makes it impossible to use. For portability maxima has to run on all available CL implementations (and has admirably succeeded in doing so up to now).
Best regards, Michel