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each of them over the years, starting back in the early 90s when I was a
student and didn't know what I was asking for or who I was talking to.
I was never penalized or dismissed for that, and they always seemed
thoughtful and kind. Many thanks to all of them for that, and thank you
for this memory.<br>
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<span>Jeremy Jones wrote on 2/20/20 9:01 AM:</span><br>
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<div dir="auto">One of the reasons MCL continued to be so good was the
quality of its developers. After Apple acquired Coral it hired Alice
Hartley and Bill St. Clair to join Gary Byers on the MCL team. The three
of them did fantastic work adding CLOS and all the other ANSI CL
features as well as porting it to the PowerPC. All three continued to
work on MCL when it was spun off to Digitool in 1994. Unfortunately, it
wasn't a commercial success, and Digitool couldn't pay them, and MCL
died.Thanks to Gary it was resurrected as openmcl. He negotiated the
open source rights in return for dropping his claim to significant back
salary. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Gary, Alice, and Bill
are some of the finest hackers I've ever known, as well as being
fantastic, humble, kind, human beings. Gary, Bill, and I (as well as
Gail and Andrew and many others) continued to work together at Clozure
for many years. When I look back at the the 36 years since Coral was
founded, I'm most grateful for the amazing people that I've known and
worked with. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb
20, 2020, 7:32 AM Toomas Altosaar <<a
href="mailto:toomas.altosaar@fi.abb.com" target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">toomas.altosaar@fi.abb.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">While on the subject of lost
souls, it only came to my attention a few weeks ago that Alice Hartley
passed away in 2017. I don’t recall that being mentioned on the list, so
I am including
a link to her work:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_K._Hartley" rel="noreferrer
noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_K._Hartley</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Alice worked with MCL users,
taking requests and unselfishly working away to provide solutions. She
was of tremendous help to my efforts in speech technology, process
automation and
quality control systems.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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