[Gardeners] * in Lisp

[Stuart Sierra]

Cyrus Harmon wrote:
> Wow. Looks like I wasn't the only with an idea like this. I've been  
> doing something similar to connect R and lisp.

So far that's Python, Perl, TCL, Prolog, and R.  Wow.  Makes me wonder: 
would it be possible to define a generic interface to external scripting 
languages?  That could make CL the ultimate "glue" language, able to use 
almost any combination of libraries from different languages.

Of course, I can't even imagine how one would implement such a beast -- 
sockets, SWANK, SLIMPL?

I think it would be cool to have a generic CFFI-like interface on top of 
different back-end implementations for various dynamically-typed 
scripting languages.  That's definitely a project for the more distant 
future, however.  For now, I'll settle for one language at a time.

-Stuart