Hi Henrik, that's what I thought - moving lists back and forth between two variants of lisp should somehow be manageable. Thanks for the tip, I wil have a closer look. Thorsten
BTW a lot of nice articles on your blog. 2011/3/24 Henrik Sarvell <hsarv...@gmail.com> > Hi Again :) > > Yes I've done some experimenting in this direction here: > http://www.prodevtips.com/2010/05/30/clojure-with-a-picolisp-database-via-clojure-http-client/ > > > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Thorsten < > gruenderteam.ber...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> one thing I like very much about emacs is the ability to run foreign >> programs (like R and picolisp) as inferior process and communicate with them >> as if they were part of emacs. >> >> I wonder if one could build a picolisp app that fully integrates with R >> (statistics software, http://www.r-project.org/) and GRASS GIS (a command >> line GIS that uses a superset of shell commands, http://grass.fbk.eu/) on >> its linux host machine? >> >> Emacs obviously can use foreign programs, like ie ledger mode ( >> http://wwwemacswiki.org/emacs/LedgerMode<http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LedgerMode>) >> which uses a fast program written in C++. I wonder if picolisp can access >> libraries written in other languages too? >> >> >> It's always claimed that clojure is great because it has access to >> countless java libraries on the jvm. But clojure is all about functional >> programming, concurrency and avoiding mutable state, while java is all about >> objects with mutable state. So it would only make sense for a clojure >> program to call java libraries like pure functions without side effects and >> use the return value, otherwise the clojure clean and scalable programming >> model would be messed up. >> >> Can't picolisp do this too? Call Java (and C, C++, Python ...) functions >> (with a list of data, maybe) and use the return value? Maybe using clojure >> as man in the middle between java and picolisp who takes care of converting >> lists in other datastructures and vice versa? >> >> Thanks any help on the road to picolisp enlightment >> Thorsten >> > >
