Michael,
I spoke with Chad a couple of months ago. New work on Sharplisp was held untill the ObjectDCL 3.0 was issued, and that has now happened. I noticed Chad has a new File Viewer on his site which looks interesting too.
In my opinion Sharplisp is not yet a finished product. That being said, I found it quite easy to work with and got some good results. Some of the lisp constructs are very difficult to translate simply due to their nature. Lambda and mapcar come to mind. Considering his limited funding and the enormity of the project I am full of admiration for him. I will be very interested in seeing the next version.
Study wise, I am putting a lot of effort into C# at the monent ... or as much as my old head can handle. To a certain extent I am anticipating what will be in the next release of Acad.
Thank you Kerry. As I vaguely recall I had come to somewhat similar conclusions after perusing the SharpLisp on-line documentation. It is an interesting product, and Chad certainly is a hard working, intellligent programmer. I wish him and his endeavors much luck and success, but for now SharpLisp sits in my undecided folder.
I used C# for my last project at university. I like it most of it; pretty clean syntax, probably the most elegant language I've coded in. I don't care for the verbose way they implemented properties though. Nonetheless, your crystal ball is functioning pretty well I think - investing in C# is probably not a bad way to go, certainly in the bigger picture too (outside the AutoCAD customization world). Still, I'm leaning towards C++.NET ... at the end of the day, there are still some things that can only be done using said language ... and I prefer it's syntax, as cryptic as it is sometimes. Now if I could just find the time to seriously knuckle down and pound the books & keys ...
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Kerry
Michael.
