Re: [Matlisp-users] [Maxima] Windows build of Maxima 5.0.14

[Terrence B. <sch...@gm...>]

Raymond Toy wrote:
> Terrence Brannon wrote:
>> Terrence Brannon wrote:
>>  
>>> Hello, I am developing a library of array processing code in Common 
>>> Lisp inspired by the J programming language. I am using Windows XP 
>>> for development.
>>>     
> Have you heard of matlisp?
Yes, in my survey of Lisp array processing I came across it. My feedback:
* Re: http://matlisp.sourceforge.net/ - MatLisp adds to this richness by 
giving you a *matrix fast class *based on BLAS 
<http://www.netlib.org/blas> and LAPACK <http://www.netlib.org/lapack>.  
-- grammatically, that should be fast matrix class
* I am on Windows, so CMUCL does not run and Allegro is too expensive 
for a hobbyist like me. Also, I desire the blinding speed of SBCL or GCL 
over Clisp for the ultimate product. Not that my project will ever 
matter, but I still want to see this little baby crank.
* I turned a guy on to Matlisp recently. He goes by the handle mogonus 
in #lisp. His name is Marco.
* I didnt see a manual at the website.
* I'm mainly doing this to create an open-source package which is just 
like the J programming language. A key idea of J is verb rank, which 
allows verbs to operate on data of any rank.
* Matlisp is not limited to rank-2 arrays is it? The README in the 
distro imply that.. or rather dont discuss anything else.
* Precompiling BLAS and LAPACK is fine, but what if a new arch wants to 
use the library? I like the fortran to lisp approach of Maxima.
* I'm not sure about the overhead of using a matrix class. My approach 
so far has been to use the built in ARRAY type.
* There is a great amount of care in documenting the code. A lot of work 
has gone into this. Has there been no reason for a release since 2003?

>   There's also at least one other matrix package bug I've forgotten 
> its name.
Hmm... the only other thing I came across was LUSH - which is Lisp-like 
syntax but not genuine common lisp. Oh wait, actually from a thread I 
started:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/d44a7c5c6b3276d8

there is NLISP - http://nlisp.info/index.html
there is also RCL and RCLG, listed here - http://www.cliki.net/Mathematics
>
> (Full disclosure:  I wrote parts of matlisp.)
nice work!
>
>>  >(funcall (intern (symbol-name :operate-on-system) :mk) "maxima"  
>> :load :verbose t))
>>   
> You probably want to use :compile instead of :load.  Then all the 
> files will be compiled (and loaded).
>> ;    - Loading module "info"
>> ;      - Binary file binary-gcl/nregex.o is old or does not exist.
>> ;        Compile (and load) source file src/nregex.lisp instead?
>>   
> Not sure why you get this, but there is a bug in gcl in that it 
> doesn't know how to create directories.  You might want to create the 
> binary-gcl directory by hand first.
yes, that helped out a lot. Thanks. And for readers of the mail archive. 
the binary-gcl directory should be made in the root of the distro, not 
in lisp-utils or src.
>
> Ray
>
The whole thing built. Now the only issue is that GCL doesnt work with 
SLIME. So I might try the whole build process over again with SBCL soon.