On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm just a Python+NumPy user and not a CS type. > > May I ask a naive question on this thread? > > > > Given the work that has (as I understand it) gone into > > making NumPy usable as a C library, why is the discussion not > > going in a direction like the following: > > What changes to the NumPy code base would be required for it > > to provide useful ndarray functionality in a C extension > > to Clojure? Is this simply incompatible with the goal that > > Clojure compile to JVM byte code? > > IIUC that work was done on a fork of numpy which has since been > abandoned by its authors, so... yeah, numpy itself doesn't have much > to offer in this area right now. It could in principle with a bunch of > refactoring (ideally not on a fork, since we saw how well that went), > but I don't think most happy current numpy users are wishing they > could switch to writing Lisp on the JVM or vice-versa, so I don't > think it's surprising that no-one's jumped up to do this work. > > If I could just point out that the attempt to fork numpy for the .NET work was done back in the subversion days, and there was little-to-no effort to incrementally merge back changes to master, and vice-versa. With git as our repository now, such work may be more feasible. Ben Root
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