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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">Yes, that's my concern. I take it as given that the CL community does not have the resources to fully reimplement numpy from scratch. If one grants me that premise, then building a FFI to numpy would be a better investment of hours than cloning it.</p>
<p dir="auto">Arguably investing in py4cl would be better than either. But other than for personal satisfaction, cloning is a dominated choice.</p>
<p dir="auto">I was hoping to hear that someone had gone over the C API with CFFI.</p>
<p dir="auto">That leads me to a follow-up question: am I right that SWIG no longer ships with a back end for emitting CFFI stubs? It seems like it was dropped sometimes between versions 3 and 4.</p>
<p dir="auto">Best,
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R</p>
<br><p dir="auto">On 10 Apr 2023, at 16:16, Marco Antoniotti wrote:</p>
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<div>IMHO, it'd be easier and effective to band up together and FIRST write a proper API specification and THEN implement it in CL.<br>
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<div>But Common Lispers are like academics: the "herding cats" applies.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Marco<br>
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<div>PS I am a Common Lisper AND an academic. You know what I mean...<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 9:09 PM Robert Goldman <<a href="mailto:rpgoldman@sift.info">rpgoldman@sift.info</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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