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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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