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Emacs and Autocad.

• behnamoh 2y ago
  > Emacs But that's a software made in Lisp for Lisp. The fact that it also works for other purposes doesn't change the fact that it's a "technology for the sake of technology" product, not "technology for the sake of goals".
  • diogenesoft 2y ago
    Not sure this makes any sense. Not sure what emacs does could have been as easily done in other languages.
  • lispm 2y ago
    GNU Emacs wasn't written for Lisp. It was developed as an extensible text editor. Its extension language was also the implementation language for a large part of the software. Much of the application domain of GNU Emacs has nothing to do with Lisp. People edit their files with it or integrate with tools.
• tra3 2y ago
  Been writing elisp in Emacs for a couple of years now. Emacs is an amazing piece of software and its heyday lisp was revolutionary. These days though I don’t see what it offers over other general purpose languages.
• fuzztester 2y ago
  AutoLISP is used as the main scripting language for AutoCAD, a popular CAD software used worldwide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD