Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:00:52 02/18/04
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On February 18, 2004 at 07:55:26, Roberto Nerici wrote: What is important is that no selfrespecting company who wants to make a profit will seriously consider starting a project in a functional language. >>>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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