<div dir="auto">Thanks Andrew. Larry was a great man. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not only is he responsible for starting the Dylan project, but he is responsible for the Apple acquisition of Coral and the ongoing development of MCL.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I became friends with Larry while I was an intern at Xerox Parc in the summer of 1978. Among many other things, Larry invented the Smalltalk browser. That was the first time I heard the word "browser". </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Years later in 1988, Coral was going through a hard time. Our best hackers, Gary Byers and Gail Zacharias, had quit because of a disagreement with management and the future of MCL and Coral was in grave danger.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">During this time, I called up Larry and we met for breakfast. I asked him flat out, "Would Apple be interested in acquiring Coral?" He sat back and and said "maybe... We're interested in developing a new programming language and we need a crack team of developers."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The rest is history. Larry started project Beans which ended with the acquisition of of Coral just before the end of 1988. The Apple Cambridge lab was started in January 1989 with five developers from Coral (Gary Byers, Jeremy Jones, Andrew Shalit, Richard Mlynarik, and Gail Zacharias). Gary kept working on MCL and the rest of us started designing and implementing the programming language Ralph which became Dylan.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Cambridge lab and our accomplishments were a direct result of Larry's vision and hard work. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 5:25 PM Andrew Shalit <<a href="mailto:alms@clozure.com">alms@clozure.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Forwarding, because I think others would be interested. (Plus there’s a notable contribution by our very own Mikel Evins.)<div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 19, 2020, at 4:49 PM, Shannon Spires <<a href="mailto:svs@bearlanding.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">svs@bearlanding.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hacker News discussion:<div><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282</a></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 19, 2020, at 2:37 PM, Andrew Shalit <<a href="mailto:alms@clozure.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">alms@clozure.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>News came today that Larry Tesler has died.<br><br>Larry was the head of Apple’s Advanced Technology Group in the 1980s. He spearheaded Apple's acquisition of Coral Software, which allowed MCL to survive and eventually become CCL. That acquisition also led to the creation of the Dylan programming language.<br><br>In his work at Xerox PARC and then at Apple, Larry played a central role in the creation of the computer interfaces that we’re all so familiar with today.<br><br>You can read more about him at <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/19/larry-tesler-rip" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/19/larry-tesler-rip</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Openmcl-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Openmcl-devel@clozure.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Openmcl-devel@clozure.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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