This is, of course, true, but also points a way forward depending on
requirements. Some kind of organised sponsorship and curation of libraries
into a more or less coherent whole that's fit for purpose would be a start. No
matter how small the start. Ravenpack? Franz? There are a few corporate users
out there that would probably like an organised numeric ecosystem.
On Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 04:07:38 AM GMT+8, Robert Goldman
<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 07:45:50 PM GMT+8, Elliott Johnson
<[email protected]> wrote:
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 <[email protected]>Date:
4/11/23 3:53 AM (GMT-08:00)To: Discussion list for Common Lisp professionals
<[email protected]>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.
On 11 Apr 2023, at 08:41, Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> 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
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 1:01 AM Michael Bentley <[email protected]> wrote:
IMHO, it'd be easier and effective to band up together and FIRST write a proper
API specification and THEN implement it in CL.
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.
