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An historical mistake that humanity is paying (and will pay) for a long time. Scheme 'cloths' was a viable option. Lisp remains the most popular scripting lang
by galfarragem 7y ago
An historical mistake that humanity is paying (and will pay) for a long time.
Scheme 'cloths' was a viable option. Lisp remains the most popular scripting language among Autocad users despite Autodesk pushing other languages (.NET and JS). So popular that Autocad clones use it also as a scripting language[1].
Edited [1] https://www.zwsoft.com/zwcad/features#Dynamic-Block https://www.zwsoft.com/zwcad/features#Dynamic-Block
- daliusd 7y agoI was working for bigest Autocad competitor for more than 10 years and never had to touch anything similar to lisp :)
- lisptw102019 7y agoIf my guess is right, that's because your company's product had their own proprietary language (MDL). But, that was OK too, because if my guess is right, your company's product also had FAR FAR FAR better COM bindings than Autocad did for 99% of what you'd want to automate.
- ben509 7y agoWas it a mistake, though? Languages have to be accessible to their audience, and Javascript caught on because of its relatively gentle learning curve. If SchemeScript hadn't caught on, it might have been that VBScript took over the web.
- hyperpallium 7y agoInsufficiently C-like languages get ignored, according to: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html?m=1 http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
- doboyy 7y agoLanguage designers and enthusiats will forever be disappointed at how many social and human factors are at play, which coincidentally, is a large part of the motivation for programming languages