Numpy and Common Lisp?

[Robert Goldman]

I don't mean to rain on the parade, but the development and maintenance 
of numpy consumes a level of resources that is simply beyond the 
capacity of the CL community to muster.

The NUMFocus project, a non-profit, supports this and other numerical 
computation projects (most, but not exclusively python), drawing on 
substantial amounts of corporate sponsorship.

I urge you to cast your eyes on this NumFOCUS sponsors list before 
thinking that our community could even begin to tackle this task:  
https://numfocus.org/sponsors

On 11 Apr 2023, at 7:14, Steven Nunez wrote:

> There's also the Lisp-Stat ecosystem, if you don't already know about 
> it. Data-frame, array-operations and LLA (Lisp Linear Algebra) cover 
> much of numpy's functionality; at least enough to get significant work 
> done.
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>     On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 07:45:50 PM GMT+8, Elliott Johnson 
> <elliott at elliottjohnson.net> wrote:
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>  FYI -  there appears to be a library called numcl that was written 
> to cover numpy's functionality.
>    https://github.com/numcl/numcl
> I've yet to try it, but thought I'd pass along the link.
> Regards,Elliott Johnson
>
> -------- Original message --------From: Raymond Wiker 
> <rwiker at gmail.com> Date: 4/11/23 3:53 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Discussion 
> list for Common Lisp professionals <pro at common-lisp.net> Subject: Re: 
> Numpy and Common Lisp?
> There’s cl-ana, which may be a useful substitute in some cases… or 
> april, possibly.
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> If you specifically want numpy, it may be possible to have Common Lisp 
> talking to python.
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> On 11 Apr 2023, at 08:41, Marco Antoniotti 
> <marco.antoniotti at 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
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> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 1:01 AM Michael Bentley 
> <michael at stray-labs.com> wrote:
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> IMHO, it'd be easier and effective to band up together and FIRST write 
> a proper API specification and THEN implement it in CL.
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> 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.
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