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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by jacquesm on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:45PM (#12354291)
> I haven't seen end-user applications written in LISP dialects

Would Autocad qualify?

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by bitwize on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:56PM (#12354360)
No. AutoCAD is written in C++. It has a crude Lisp as an extension language, but that has been deprecated years ago in favor of VBA and loadable C++ DLLs.
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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by lispm on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @03:58PM (#12354767)
In 2016 Visual Lisp is still supported for AutoCAD

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=...

and their Lisp forum looks busy:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-gener...

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by rurban on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:05AM (#12365890)
Still supported yes, but after they bought Visual Lisp 2000 development on their LISP stopped.
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