[plt-scheme] Examples of Scheme (or Lisp) in real-world

Are you saying AutoLisp is from the 1960s? :-) Remember Scheme was born in 1973 or so. 


On Mar 9, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Hugh Myers wrote:

> AutoLisp predates Scheme (I think) as it was a modified version of
> David Betz's Lisp interpreter. Either way, fractal architecture sounds
> like a cool combination of Lisp and M. C. Escher!
> 
> --hsm
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A friend of mine took advantage of the fact that AutoCad had Scheme
>> and did a Master's project on fractal buildings. He did a very cool
>> museum that was a rotated pyramid with the main staircase self-similar
>> to the whole building.
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Hugh Myers <hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This may not be what you had in mind, but you might want a field trip
>>> to the Architecture department with particular emphasis on AutoCad
>>> which while not implemented in Lisp, embeds Lisp as its extension
>>> language--- everything from algorithms for geometric construction to
>>> menu management. An entirely practical example... I still chuckle my
>>> a** of thinking about architects learning Lisp ;-)
>>> 
>>> --hsm
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>>>> Ciprian,
>>>> 
>>>> I followed upward from the URL you sent earlier, and got here:
>>>> 
>>>> http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Functional_programming_--_2009-2010_--_info.uvt.ro
>>>> 
>>>> Are the lab materials listed here an accurate depiction of what the
>>>> course is covering?
>>>> 
>>>> And if so, is there a chance that -- and this is the point where I
>>>> remind you to fasten your flak jacket -- is there a chance that the
>>>> students are...bored to tears?
>>>> 
>>>> You say that most of your students want to build *something*.  Of
>>>> course most of them don't know what they want to build -- that's why
>>>> they're students.  But they still represent a great starting point: a
>>>> desire to DO, rather than a desire to sit back, relax, and hope that
>>>> their diploma will guarantee them riches.
>>>> 
>>>> Putting such students through this lab material...well, if I were them
>>>> (and I was, one of those students who wanted to DO something), I would
>>>> be in deep rebellion too.
>>>> 
>>>> Shriram
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