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In article <hbakerCxDu55.9HH@netcom.com>
           hbaker@netcom.com "Henry G. Baker" writes:

> AutoLisp is similar to XLISP circa 1982 which ran in 32K bytes.
> AutoLisp has conses, strings and file handles.  AutoLisp has dynamic
> scoping.  AutoLisp had (as of Rel. 9) immutable strings and immutable
> lists, but it does have SETQ, so it isn't a completely functional
> language.  AutoLisp does _not_ have closures, at least in Rel. 9.

Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know.
 
> AutoLisp has a persistent database, which is the 'drawing file', but
> it isn't exactly general purpose.

No, but AutoLisp makes a great embedded language. ;-)

Thanks
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