…LISP. I have now closed the What are the best features ever added to AutoCAD? poll, and the winner is AutoLISP/Visual LISP, by a long, long way. I don’t always agree with the majority view expressed in the polls here, but in this case I wholeheartedly agree. Adding LISP was the biggest and best [...]
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Autodesk wants your input in its annual API survey. What used to be a closed survey for Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) members has been open to all for the last couple of years, and if you do any Autodesk-based development at all I encourage you to take part. Yes, that includes those of us [...]  11 May 2010, 4:57 pm |  2 comments | Tags: API, Autodesk, AutoLISP, Feedback, LISP, Survey | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Customisation, Development, LISP, Other Blogs Here in Australia it is well into the 21st and I raised my own glass last night, but for John McCarthy and most of my readers, it is the 20th of October right now. So this is the appropriate time to say Happy Birthday to LISP. Here’s to another 50 years of simple, compact, [...] 20 October 2008, 11:59 pm |  Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoLISP, CAD History | Category: AutoCAD, Development, LISP It is difficult to find an exact date for LISP’s birthday. It wasn’t so much born in an instant as it was gradually dragged out of the primordial slime during the heady days of late 50s computer research. What is known is that John McCarthy, LISP’s “father”, published a report in October 1958 about [...] 13 October 2008, 12:51 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Autodesk, AutoLISP, CAD History, John Walker | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, LISP, Other Blogs Warning, CAD nerd stuff ahead. This is a long and technical post and if you’re using AutoCAD in a largely out-of-the-box state you probably won’t care about any of it. If your modification of AutoCAD extends beyond the trivial, you may find it useful to know what AutoCAD loads, and in what order things [...] Yes, that includes hacking about (or producing beautifully elegant code) in LISP. If so, you may wish to go here and fill in the appropriate API survey, which is probably the AutoCAD one. This year, Autodesk is opening up this survey, which used to be confined to Autodesk Developer Network members. I approve. ADN represents a tiny [...] 23 April 2008, 4:20 pm | One comment | Tags: API, AutoCAD, AutoLISP, Development, Survey, VBA | Category: AutoCAD, Development Greg Robinson, who I had the pleasure of meeting at Autodesk some 11 years ago in the run-up to Release 14, has started a Wiki for AutoLISP and other AutoCAD-based source code. I’m a big fan of LISP in AutoCAD, so I’m happy to see this resource available for users. It’s in its infancy [...] 23 April 2008, 12:13 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoLISP, Greg Robinson, Tip, Wiki | Category: AutoCAD, LISP, Tip |
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