Numpy and Common Lisp?

Marco Antoniotti marco.antoniotti at unimib.it
Thu Apr 13 06:09:54 UTC 2023


Hi

As the main proponent of the utility ‘irsabol’ I am partial to Julia (which
is a Common Lisp in a drag :) ).  IMHO Julia is doing many things right.


All the best

Marco



On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 04:18, <lpgl at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> To add to the list of library propositions for numpy in Lisp, we can
> probably also have a look at the language Hylang that is a Lisp dialect
> that's embedded in Python.
>
> Cheers
>
> * Robert Goldman
> | Hi, Daniel --
>
> | I was looking for a system that I could use to do some numerical
> | computations I now do in Python in CL instead.  That involves a
> | relatively large function library (or perhaps more accurately, the
> | developers of numpy have a better idea what functions are likely to be
> | needed than do I), and the ability to do vectorized operations.
>
> | I asked for a CFFI binding because I found a number of stabs at
> something similar in CL, but none looked promising for use in the short
> term.
>
> | I'm not sure what you mean by "a custom kernel," I'm afraid.
>
> | Schedule was "as soon as possible," in the sense of "if it's there I
> will start using it right away."
>
> | I guess the trait valuation is that I would like something that I
> | could use instead of numpy, so quite portable (although if it only
> | worked in SBCL, that would be fine), implementation effort:
> | essentially none (I want to use a capable linear algebra library, not
> | write one).
>
> | Best,
> | R
>
> --
Marco Antoniotti
https://dcb.disco.unimib.it
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