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Fascinating project. Not many remember this, but one of the most successful embedded commercial Lisps was AutoLisp [1], which was the "scripting language" for A
by wenc 8y ago
Fascinating project. Not many remember this, but one of the most successful embedded commercial Lisps was AutoLisp [1], which was the "scripting language" for AutoCAD.
My uncles who were engineers/draftsmen used to boast about the stuff they could accomplish with AutoLisp. I didn't understand the power of Lisp until I came across another embedded Lisp -- Emacs Lisp.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP
- jes 8y agoI believe AutoLISP was derived from XLISP, a publicly available LISP written by David Betz. I had a lot of fun with XLISP, and respected the quality of the work done by Mr. Betz.