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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by crucini on Friday October 16, 2009 @05:38PM (#886229)
AutoCAD is not written in Lisp. It has been written in several languages, including C.

AutoLisp is just a thin scripting layer.

See <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/autofile.html>the autodesk file</a>.

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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by jacquesm on Friday October 16, 2009 @06:21PM (#886295)
That 'thin' scripting layer has been used to program some pretty impressive stuff in the engineering and architectural world.

Anyway, some more examples then:

http://www.cliki.net/Application

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Re:C++ in Coders at Work by crucini on Saturday October 17, 2009 @04:50PM (#887412)
> That 'thin' scripting layer has been used to program some pretty impressive stuff in the engineering and architectural world.

Yes, I've seen people work wonders with AutoLisp. There was - probably still is - an application used for designing clothes. The designer creates, I think, a "size 8" and a lisp script generates the other sizes.

AutoLisp being lisp-like is really a happy accident. The Autodeskers chose Xlisp IIRC because it was free and embeddable. If they could have embedded a C-like language interpreter, they would have.

In fact later, AutoDesk introduced other languages and tried to push users onto them. But AutoLisp already had huge momentum.

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