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 I have been thoroughly enjoying Kean Walmsley’s interview of Autodesk co-founder John Walker, which he has now finished. Kean’s link to part 4 is currently broken (edit: now fixed) and that broken link has been picked up by others (edit: also fixed in Between The Lines), so here are the correct links: Part 1, [...] 4 October 2008, 9:22 pm | One comment | Tags: Autodesk, Honesty, Interview, John Walker, Kean Walmsley, Other Blogs | Category: Autodesk, Interview, Other Blogs, Thoughts, Web Stuff I have a lot of posts about AutoCAD and a few about grammar, but I expect this will be the only post I ever make that combines the subjects. Autodesk founder John Walker, a very prominent figure in AutoCAD’s history, has written an article about the correct use of the apostrophe. While I enjoyed [...] 15 March 2008, 9:13 am | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Fun, Grammar, John Walker | Category: AutoCAD, Grammar |
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