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As an architect I disliked Autocad and its scripting language, Autolisp which is the worse implementation of the Lisp way I know. It's when I discovered Scheme
by martyalain 6y ago
As an architect I disliked Autocad and its scripting language, Autolisp which is the worse implementation of the Lisp way I know. It's when I discovered Scheme that I began to understand what the Lisp way could bring for me, as a non professional coder. And it's when I went down and analyzed its foundations, the lambda calculus, that I began to understand how a programming language can be built.
In the past, as a teacher in CAD, I have been writing rather useful code with Ruby working in Sketchup3D, and I loved this language. But today, as a past architect with time enough to think quietly (until death) about a programming language, the Lips way is my way: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=fromroots2canopy http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=fromroots2canopy
The only problem I encountered in my trip to the world lisp ... came from some Lisp priests who do not accept any other vision of Lisp than their own. And end up putting anyone off.
The only thing that matters is the pleasure one can take in elegantly coding beautiful algorithms. The rest is negligible, at least for me, who is nearing the end of my life.
Best regards
Alain Marty