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Foreign functions and common Lisp

Harlan Sexton

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The language Common Lisp is a standard dialect of Lisp which has been implemented on a wide range of machines by a variety of commercial and academic groups. One serious flaw in the Common Lisp standard, at least to many Common Lisp users on "general-purpose" hardware, 1 is the lack of an defined foreign function interface, or FFI. The subject of this note is a discussion of FFI's for three different Common Lisp systems on engineering workstations and some thoughts on what foreign function interfaces ought to look like.

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The language Common Lisp is a standard dialect of Lisp which has been implemented on a wide range of machines by a variety of commercial and academic groups. One serious flaw in the Common Lisp standard, at least to many Common Lisp users on "general-purpose" hardware, 1 is the lack of an defined foreign function interface, or FFI. The subject of this note is a discussion of FFI's for three different Common Lisp systems on engineering workstations and some thoughts on what foreign function interfaces ought to look like.

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The language Common Lisp is a standard dialect of Lisp which has been implemented on a wide range of machines by a variety of commercial and academic groups. One serious flaw in the Common Lisp standard, at least to many Common Lisp users on "general-purpose" hardware, 1 is the lack of an defined foreign function interface, or FFI. The subject of this note is a discussion of FFI's for three different Common Lisp systems on engineering workstations and some thoughts on what foreign function interfaces ought to look like.

Key concepts: Lisp, Common Lisp, Computer science, Programming language, Variety (cybernetics), Interface (matter), Workstation, Function (biology)

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