[fetter-devel] Quick CFFI update

[Kenny Tilton]

C Y wrote:

>--- Kenny Tilton <ktilton at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi, Cliff. I did not mean to bite your head off, just a couple of 
>>fingers. :) Everything you said was spot on as far as I am concerned,
>>and input on design questions from the interested and FFI-savvy 
>>community is great to have, so don't hold back.
>>
>>-- 
>>Kenny
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>>
>
>No worries :-).  Irrelevant discussion is often a severe drag on
>getting stuff done,
>
The funny thing is that I also want project developers to get input from 
the community via c.l.l, Planet Lisp, and #Lisp. Talk about a potential 
for irrelevant discussion.... :)

>Which does bring up one potentially useful question I can pose - for
>those without much FFI experience, but wanting to get up to speed so as
>to be actually useful to this effort, what are the recommended
>resources?  Books, implimentation docs, FFI user guides? 
>
I think you can grab the AllegroCL Trial for any OS and get their FFI 
doc and discussion. That might even be accessible via the Web. That is 
the one I know, but likewise for Lispworks or even CLisp. I think just 
reading that will give you a feel for the issues as an applications 
person. If you are really feeling energetic, try using the FFI of your 
implementation to get to a fun library, such as OpenGL or SDL. You can 
cheat when you get stuck by finding existing bindings on c-l.net. A dead 
simple library is OpenAL, by the way, for (pretty much) playing WAV 
files with 3D effects such as Doppler shift.

Mind you, our joint objective is sparing application developers most of 
this grief. We'll call it "C/C++ Plug 'n Play", assuming no one has 
already used that tag line. :)

-- 
Kenny

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