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From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
Subject: Re: C++ and waitresses (long)
In-Reply-To: aarsten@idt.unit.no's message of 24 May 91 20:55:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May27.044142.787@odi.com>
Reply-To: dlw@odi.com
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
References: <2325@media03.UUCP> <1991May24.205554.10284@ugle.unit.no>
Date: Mon, 27 May 91 04:41:42 GMT

In article <1991May24.205554.10284@ugle.unit.no> aarsten@idt.unit.no (Amund Aarsten) writes:

   for everyone, every language has strong and weak points. For instance, I don't think
   Lisp is a very good choice for doing 3D graphics!

I suppose you said this thinking that it was obviously true, that
doing 3D graphics in Lisp would obviously be a joke.  Actually, the
Symbolics Graphics Division has been producing and selling for years a
group of 3D graphics products written in Lisp.  Of course, I'm talking
about a serious heavy-duty production Common Lisp, not a "you can
write a Lisp interpreter in 100 lines of code" toy of the sort that
many textbooks describe.  The Symbolics Graphics Division tools were
used to produce some lovely 3D animated graphics, including quite a
lot of TV commercials.

(I realize that this has nothing to with OOP, but I could not let
that remark go by without comment.)