Nobody needs to worry about that much longer as Stein who does
not say so out right is clearly tired of being a whipping boy for the
parasites from the CAD industry and has stated on the home page that
he is retiring the website -- including his software and all content --
as of this month, August 2004 when the domain name registration
expires.
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Architectural & e-Business Consulting -- Software Development
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"Richard" wrote in message news:4122b5b9_3@newsprd01...
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> "Don Butler" wrote in message
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> > http://www.dsxcad.com/
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> > Check out Dave Stein's Visual Lisp Bible. It's a shame it couldn't have
> > been
> > marketed, but he's giving it away as a PDF for free.
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> > Don
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> FWIW I've been reviewing Daves PDF recently.
> & I don't think I'd recommend it for beginners.
> In fact I would have reservations recommending it to
> anyone as it is right now, unless they where very
> experienced in LISP & perhaps ActiveX
> Mostly because a) there are limited worked examples,
> most examples are single line code snippets
> that need to be 'played' with to test out. (a difficult thing for a
> begineer)
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> However the biggest failing is the errors / bugs in the few coded
> sample apps that are included. Beginners shouldn't need to debug code
> samples (unless that is the point of an exercise of course).
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> IMHO, a code example should work, no if,'s buts or maybe's.
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> OTOH if this was a first draft I'd say it is a great piece of work, and
I'd
> look forward to the final revision.
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> Just my $0.02, YMMV :-)
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