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For those not familiar, this post is by John Walker[0] one of the co-founders of Autodesk who made AutoCAD. He passed away last year[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297185

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Wow, definitely familiar with his work, though haven't used AutoCAD for quite some time. Pretty sure my fingers still remember some of the text commands.

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I hadn’t heard that he died, sad.

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