Newcomer's question about Clojure's compatibility with common lisp

[bal...@gmail.com]

Hello,

First let me congratulate the clojure team on this wonderful
initiative: porting lisp to the jvm.

Next is my question: can I run common lisp programs on the jvm using
clojure? I was thinking specifically to Maxima - (the formal calculus
program)?

And finally another question: are there any ubuntu packages for
clojure available at this time?

Thanks in advance,

Julien.

[Rayne]

You can't use Clojure to run Common Lisp programs on the JVM. Clojure
is it's own Lisp, and has nothing to do with Common Lisp. There are
some implementations of Common Lisp on the JVM, the most popular of
which I believe is ABCL.

I believe there are some experimental Ubuntu packages available, but I
would highly recommend that you just pull it from the github
repository.

[Daniel Simms]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Rayne <discip...@gmail.com> wrote:
> but I would highly recommend that you just pull it from the github
> repository.

Especially if you're going to use clojure-contrib ...or is there some
"release" of contrib synch'd to clojure releases that I missed
somewhere?

[Alex Osborne]

There's a 1.0 compatible branch on github. You get it with:

git clone git://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib.git
cd clojure-contrib
git checkout origin/clojure-1.0-compatible

Or download a tarball from:

http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/archives/clojure-1.0-compatible

[Stefan Fehrenbach]

Hi Julien.
On Thursday 29 October 2009 bal...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,

>
> Next is my question: can I run common lisp programs on the jvm using
> clojure? I was thinking specifically to Maxima - (the formal calculus
> program)?
>

Clojure is not source compatible to Common Lisp (and not intended to be).
If you want Common Lisp on the JVM you might want to look at ABCL
(http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/). I don't know though whether it
runs Maxima or not.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Julien.
>
HTH,
Stefan

[Tassilo Horn]

Daniel Simms <daniel...@gmail.com> writes:

Rayne suggested to get *ABCL* from github instead of using the
experimental ubuntu packages. ;-)

Bye,
Tassilo

[Rayne]

No, I didn't.

On Oct 30, 8:28 am, Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Daniel Simms <daniel.si...@gmail.com> writes:

[rob]

Clojure is actually an entirely different language in the Lisp family
of languages. In addition to ABCL (Common Lisp on the JVM), there are
also 2 or 3 Scheme implementations on the JVM.

[Daniel Simms]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Alex Osborne <a...@meshy.org> wrote:
> There's a 1.0 compatible branch on github.  [...]

Thanks, I missed that branch.