There’s cl-ana, which may be a useful substitute in some cases… or april, possibly.
https://www.cliki.net/cl-ana https://www.cliki.net/april If you specifically want numpy, it may be possible to have Common Lisp talking to python.
On 11 Apr 2023, at 08:41, Marco Antoniotti marco.antoniotti@unimib.it wrote:
Hi Michael
I am all for it. But, as I said, I am an academic (and a cat).
Should we (as in "a bunch of common lispers", most of whom with day jobs) want to do something like that, how would you want to proceed? Note that I have been part of many past failures.
All the best
Marco
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 1:01 AM Michael Bentley <michael@stray-labs.com mailto:michael@stray-labs.com> wrote:
IMHO, it'd be easier and effective to band up together and FIRST write a proper API specification and THEN implement it in CL.
I agree. Here’s the API specification for NumPy: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/index.html#reference
Looks rather intimidating. Less intimidating though, than doing the FFI dance, though.