Perl in Lisp is a Common Lisp interface to the C API of Perl 5. It consists of CFFI definitions for much of the Perl API and a wrapper library to make that API useful in Lisp code.
Perl in Lisp is not under active development
Version 0.1, released July 24, 2006, includes a test suite with 94 assertions and over 50 pages of documentation in a “literate programming” style.
In March 2007 Vadim Konovalov released a CPAN module, Language::Lisp, adapted from Perl in Lisp. The CPAN module has better support for different Perl configurations, including multi-threaded Perl and Windows binaries.
Download current release: perl-in-lisp_0.1.tar.gz
Documentation:
- HTML literate source, all one page
- PDF literate source
This library is was ASDF-installable. Here is my GPG key for ASDF.
Example use:
(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :perl-in-lisp) (perl::eval-perl "3 + 4") ==> 7
| Operating System | Lisp Implementation | Perl-in-Lisp Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| GNU / Linux 2.6 | SBCL 0.9.13 | Passes all tests | |
| CMUCL 19a | Passes all tests | ||
| CLISP 2.35 | Passes all tests | ||
| GCL 2.6.7 | Will not work | until the GCL port of CFFI is fixed | |
| ECL 0.9h | Fails to compile | Reports missing symbol Perl_hv_iterkeysv in perlapi.fas |
|
| Windows with ActiveState Perl | CLISP 2.37 | Does not work | lisp.exe crashes (code 256) on attempted use |
| LispWorks | Does not work | “Processor Fault” on every test | |
| Allegro | Unknown | ||
| Mac OS X | OpenMCL | Unknown |
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