[fetter-devel] Quick CFFI update

[Kenny Tilton]

C Y wrote:

>--- Kenny Tilton <ktilton at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>C Y wrote:
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>>>This isn't too surprising, is it?
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>>I am sorry. Exactly who are you? And what is your interest here? 
>>Your comments are fine, but irrelevant to this discussion, which 
>>is why I ask.
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>My name is Cliff Yapp.  I'm essentially an observer on these lists, but
>I do have an interest in FFI's in Lisp from the standpoint of the
>Maxima computer algebra system - FFIs are considered a promising way to
>incorporate things like fast numerical libraries into Maxima.  But for
>this to be viable we would need to have a univeral (at least over the
>free lisps we support) FFI.
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>I apologize for being irrelevant.  Since I am not currently a code
>contributing list member I'll refrain from further comment unless I
>have actual code contributions.
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Hi, Cliff. I did not mean to bite your head off, just a couple of 
fingers. :) Everything you said was spot on as far as I am concerned, 
and input on design questions from the interested and FFI-savvy 
community is great to have, so don't hold back.

-- 
Kenny

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