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[Sue Stones]

Akkana Peck wrote:
> I believe AutoCAD uses LISP for scripting, not as the implementation
> language for its own core.  So it's like emacs and gimp, which
> are written in C but use lisp as their built-in scripting languages
> (though gimp can also be scripted in perl or python).

Thanks Akkana, I guess I should look at the GIMP then, to get an idea of 
what you are talking about.  It may be very useful for a project that I 
have in mind, apart from a general interest anyway.

> I presume Lisp is popular for built-in scripting languages because
> it's so straightforward to write a lisp parser and simple lisp
> interpreter.  But whatever the reason, a bit of lisp knowledge
> is still surprisingly useful.

I have never seen it mentioned in any job description that I have seen.

Sue