Re: [Maxima-discuss] How can I call Maxima functions from a language different from Common Lisp? (FFI or server/client, doesn't matter)

[Jeronimo P. <j_...@al...>]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:50:39AM -0700, Richard Fateman wrote:
> Scheme !!

Yes...
 
> It is rather likely that any particular Scheme program can be translated 
> into Common Lisp
> without too much trouble.   If you rely on piles of Scheme programs in 
> libraries and such,
> maybe this is not a solution. But.. there is a Scheme interpreter 
> written in Common Lisp
> in Norvig's "Paradigms of AI Programming".
> 
> If your program P were in CL, then you could load and run it inside 
> Maxima by
> having an initialization command that was equivalent to (load("P.lisp"), 
> ?P() )

Well, I'm using implementation-specific libraries, so translating would
be difficult. But I've found that I can call Maxima directly with

maxima --very-quiet < whatever-file

and things will work if I tell Maxima to answer in Lisp form (not in
pre-formatted output).

Thank you for your help!

J.