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Re:John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died by lemper on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:06AM (#39316220)
bro, i have a question. lisp addon for autocad is the second piece of lisp on automotive software. the first one was mathcad's addon. what's with lisp and automotive software? where and when did lisp slip into it? thanks xoxo
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Re:John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died by jdougan on Friday February 09, 2024 @07:39PM (#39322273)
The original AutoCAD was built around AutoLISP [1] (sort of like Emacs), keeping with John Walker's philosophy regarding programmability in software. [2]. MathCAD APIs were much later.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/

[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/

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