I've never seen anyone else use this approach. Now I've built an interpreter in Rust/WASM so it can run in the browser - partly nostalgia, partly preservation before this knowledge disappears entirely.

The lisp/ folder contains some LSP files from that era, others i recreated from memory.

Repo: https://github.com/holg/acadlisp/

What kind of drawings were you generating? Electrical schematics, mechanical parts, architecture? We also have some playground, to toy around with LISP and some function generator, to demonstrate Lisp usage for math...

https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-390A...

https://github.com/dbetz/xlisp

My first job out of college was a 6 month contact at a fairly small industrial control manufacturer that had been purchased by a larger conglomerate. All of their engineering documentation needed to be converted to the new company’s format.

The old company had devised a scheme whereby a wire harness could be completely described by the part number, which encoded the wire size, color, length, and termination. The new company wanted a detail drawing for each wire, with thousands in the database.

I made a library of reusable glyphs that could be stored in Pagemaker layers, and connected with postscript generated lines, and a script to iterate through the part number database and generate drawings.