[mikelevins]

In the early 1990s I worked on a couple of different projects at Apple that were done mainly in Common Lisp. When I was working on one of those, another of them hired a guy named Dave Vronay a young skater and assembly-language game-machine hacker to work on graphics and UI stuff. The Lisp we were using is the one that started as Coral Lisp, became Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp, then Macintosh Common Lisp, then OpenMCL, and more recently Clozure Common Lisp.

I remember stopping with a friend to chat with Dave one day not too long after he joined the team and he was over the moon about how the Lisp exposed not just an assembler, but an interactive assembler: he could write assembly routines, evaluate them, and see them run immediately, and also inspect the in-memory data that they operated on. He seemed so happy.

[nxobject]

Oh wow – were you working under Larry Tesler? I've yet to grasp just the sheer diversity of projects that lived under him in his Apple tenure.