Foreign function interface. To call C/C++ libs. On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:52 PM, javajosh <javaj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is FFI? > > On Dec 9, 10:47 pm, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:43 AM, javajosh <javaj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> It does beg the question, though: what is a reasonable bare minimum >>> function set that a real-life lisp would require? >> >> I think different people might give different answers to that. >> >> The academic computer scientist is likely to consider lambda, the >> function-call operator, nil, if, and eval to suffice. After all those >> suffice for anything you can express in lambda calculus. >> >> A Lisper interested in Lisp hacking as an end in itself will want to >> add cons, car/cdr or first/rest, =, cond, etc. >> >> The application programmer is going to additionally require FFI with, >> particularly, GUI libraries, not to mention various forms of disk, >> networking, keyboard, and mouse I/O. >> >> The systems programmer is going to additionally require being able to >> get at the bare metal and run tight, efficient, non-interpreted code >> in kernel mode. >> >> Ultimately I suppose it hinges on what someone means by a "real-life" >> Lisp. I'd say the application programmer's needs are probably th best >> answer there, since Lisp hacking for its own sake and academic >> computer science are more mathematics than "real-world", and systems >> programming can be accomodated by a combination of C and a Lisp with >> some kind of FFI. (Clojure as the Lisp requires Java as well, and >> Clojure and C calling each other indirectly via Java and JNI as a >> go-between.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
