19. Interfacing with Other Languages
Once upon a time, Lisp ruled the world…
Well, OK, not really. But there used to be a time when you could buy horribly expensive but impressive computers called Lisp Machines where the whole operating system was written in Lisp and Lisp was the dominant (or sometimes the only) programming language. Those times are long gone, though, and COMMON LISP has since had to learn to cooperate in a world that is dominated by other programming languages. In this chapter, we’ll mostly concentrate on the major players like C or JAVA but there’s a lot more stuff out there, some of which should at least be mentioned.1
- Some COMMON LISP implementations (like CLOZURECL or LISPWORKS) come with built-in support for calling out ...
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