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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Lisp versus C++ for AI. software
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schaffer@wat.hookup.net writes:
>In <325E8206.6263@dma.isg.mot.com>, Mukesh Prasad <mprasad@dma.isg.mot.com> writes:
>>> Graham also notes: GNU Emacs, Autocad, and Interleaf are all written
>>> in Lisp.
>>
>>This may be slightly misleading.  I don't know about Autocad,
>>but GNU Emacs and Interleaf are both written in C.  But in

     AutoCAD is written in C.  (I know, I ported it once, many years ago.)
AutoLISP is a little LISP interpreter for writing add-ons to AutoCAD.

     The very first version of AutoCAD was written in, of all things,
PL/I for the Z80 under CP/M.

						John Nagle
