[HN Gopher] Lisp-Stat: An Environment for Statistical Computing
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       Lisp-Stat: An Environment for Statistical Computing
        
       Author : dunefox
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2022-08-14 11:03 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | wodenokoto wrote:
       | Reading this, I wonder how it measures up to Julia. It is my
       | understanding that Julia was implemented in Lisp and so this
       | almost reads like "we dropped the JIT thing and just compile
       | instead"
        
         | na85 wrote:
         | >I wonder how it measures up to Julia
         | 
         | In what way?
         | 
         | Julia is of course an entire language ecosystem whereas lisp-
         | stat is a collection of packages mostly maintained by a single
         | dude.
        
         | mark_l_watson wrote:
         | For hard-core numerical computing, Julia would be, I think, be
         | far superior.
         | 
         | Speaking as a 40+ year Common Lisp developer, I like this
         | project because it is built on Common Lisp arrays and smoothly
         | integrates with the Common Lisp ecosystem. I have spent some
         | time using alternative CL libraries that sit on top of BLAS,
         | etc.
        
         | eigenspace wrote:
         | > It is my understanding that Julia was implemented in Lisp
         | 
         | That's mostly incorrect. Julia's parsing and lowering are
         | implemented in Femtolisp (though active work is underway to
         | replace the parser with one written in julia itself). There's
         | no lisp code doing any actual important or performance
         | sensitive work in Julia.
         | 
         | The very small core of the language implementation is done in C
         | and (a restricted subset of) C++, and then the rest of the
         | language is boostrapped in Julia itself.
        
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