On 29 October 2015 at 22:28, Waldek Hebisch <hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl> wrote: > Bill Page wrote: >> >> On 29 October 2015 at 21:31, Alasdair McAndrew <amc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > ... >> > calls the gsl function defined in /usr/local/src/gsl-1.16/integration/qag.c >> >> I see nothing wrong with this strategy since just calling C from Lisp >> is the hardest part. GSLL solves many (but not all) of the problems >> with type conversions. > > Not exactly. There are types in C and they map reasonably to > Spad types. Lisp encourages things which are awkward in > Spad.
Surely less awkward than C. > In both cases one needs to declare types at Spad > level and some cases needs wrappers. One needs to ensure > that libraries can be found, which for Lisp means that > we need to find bot Lisp library and C library. Well, Kurt showed how to call 'qng.c' will just 3 lines of code. I would be happy to see a similar demonstration that involved Spad and C. Bill. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
