[nick_barnes]

Indeed, LispWorks was Harlequin's first actual product, paid for itself over many years and still does today in the hands of several of the original developers who acquired it after Harlequin went bust. The next product was ScriptWorks (a PostScript RIP), which became the company's cash cow and lives on as the Harlequin RIP from Global Graphics http://harlequinrip.com/ . That paid for the boss's pet projects, including MLWorks (which became a product in the mid 90s) and DylanWorks (which never quite did at Harlequin, but was carried on by ex-Harlequin people who set up Functional Objects, and survives today as OpenDylan). The other main thing to come out of Harlequin is Xanalys, who took on the various Lisp-based analytical projects (and ended up holding the MLWorks sources). This is the second time that we have acquired our old projects from the heirs of Harlequin and open-sourced them: the first was the Memory Pool System http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps