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From: goldin@spot.uchicago.edu (Alexey Goldin)
Subject: Re: 'Open' languages: e.g., MATLAB
In-Reply-To: Raymond Toy's message of 01 Jul 1996 12:22:18 -0400
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In article <4nraqwlz9h.fsf@rtp.ericsson.se> Raymond Toy <toy@rcur18.rtp.ericsson.se> writes:


   Along these same lines, I also prefer Common Lisp, because scheme is
   too sparse:  not enough data types and no standard object system.  

   Thus, I decided a short while ago to hook up LAPACK to CMU Lisp via
   its foreign function (alien) interface.  I've added hooks to some
   parts of BLAS and a very few parts of LAPACK and combined them with a
   simple matrix class via CLOS.

Hmm, can I  look at it? I am just learning Common Lisp and would
like to see example how could I use it for something real ;-)
