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Subject: Re: AutoCAD

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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