Author: Roberto Nerici
Date: 04:55:26 02/18/04
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>>There's a nifty and rather complex commercial program called AutoCAD that's been >>around for close to two decades. I've used it professionally and have written >>plug-in applications for it. It is fast, and even on the hardware of the mid >>1980s it chugged along at a decent pace. >> >>AutoCAD is written almost entirely in Lisp and it made a bunch of cash for its >>authors. Its existence easily disproves all of your above stated "facts". [snip] >This is like saying that 1 ant which drinks whiskey proofs that all ants drink >whisky. But showing 1 ant which drinks whisky does disprove the hypothesis that no ants drink whisky :-) As an aside, I was under the impression that AutoCAD *used* to be written in lisp but was no longer, although it still has the AutoLISP support. However, I can't remember where I've got that idea from, I'm probably wrong. Btw Vincent, "proof" and "proofs" are nouns, prove/proves is the verb. Roberto/.
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