<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 dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><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">toomas.altosaar@fi.abb.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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:<u></u><u></u></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">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_K._Hartley</a><u></u><u></u></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"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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