Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!nntp.sei.cmu.edu!news.psc.edu!hudson.lm.com!news.math.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!park
From: park@netcom.com (Bill Park)
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Message-ID: <parkDD684q.1H6@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.lang.lisp
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <40flcv$gt4@woodstock.socs.uts.EDU.AU>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 00:02:49 GMT
Lines: 23
Sender: park@netcom16.netcom.com

In article <40flcv$gt4@woodstock.socs.uts.EDU.AU>
gjwright@socs.uts.edu.au (George James Wright) writes:

> What I would really like to know is what are some of the
> applications written using LISP? 

Probably the most widely-used Lisp program worldwide is
AutoCAD(tm), a CAD package that runs on DOS PCs, maybe
Windows now, too.  As I recall, it is based on a Lisp
dialect called AutoLisp(tm), and end users learn that
language in order to use AutoCAD.  So there are a lot more
Lisp programmers around than you might think!!

The history of the product, the company AutoDesk,
Inc. (Sausalito, CA) that sells it, and the company's
founder John Walker is fascinating, but too long to go into
here.  Someone may be able to post a pointer to that sort of
information, but it's off-topic for comp.lang.lisp.

Bill Park
=========


