[racket] CAM

From: Doug Williams (m.douglas.williams at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 25 11:49:37 EST 2013

But we do know who to go to when we need a control system for our
hobby 3.5 meter backyard telescope.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at me.com> wrote:
> Years ago, I heard about AutoLisp from a non-programmer that used it. I
> think Racket would be a fine tool for making a newer and better one. I don't
> dare risk asking the originator of this thread for an example, for he will
> belittle me without ever giving an example, and tell me that I only use
> Racket for hobby projects.
>
> http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/How_to_Generate_CNC_Code_Using_AutoCAD_and.html
>
> rac
>
> On Jan 25, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Tim Brown wrote:
>
> On 25/01/13 03:44, Hugh Aguilar wrote:
>
> Do you guys know if anybody has done any CAM work in Racket, Scheme,
>
> Lisp, etc.? Perhaps one of these 30-day wonders from the PLTgames
>
> contest. :-)
>
>
> Given as the 2nd PLT games contest is running, and the first one was a
> Turing tarpit; probably not.
>
> Actually, I'd be interested in hearing about any language used as a
>
> framework for CAM (I have no patience for point-and-click CAM software,
>
> but I'm only interested in DSL CAM systems).
>
>
> I believe there are a number (>= 1) of CAM programmers using SWI Prolog,
> and active on the SWI Prolog list.  I guess there are certain spacial
> problems that are more "appropriately" solved using Prolog.  It might be
> worth raising a question over there, too.  [Nobody's done anything with
> datalog have they?]
>
> Tim
>
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