Harlequin strengthens Lisp commitment.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 1997-- Global software developer Harlequin has announced the availability of two exciting new additions to its family of Lisp products. The company made the announcement at the Object World East show being held in Boston this week. Version 5.0 of Liquid Common Lisp (language) Common Lisp - A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs. (formerly Lucid Common Lisp) integrates exceptional compiler technology with Harlequin's world-leading LispWorks development environment. Liquid Common Lisp is a software development tool for advanced object-oriented programming object-oriented programming, a modular approach to computer program (software) design. Each module, or object, combines data and procedures (sequences of instructions) that act on the data; in traditional, or procedural, programming the data are separated from the that conforms to ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. X3.226:1994 and includes a comprehensive implementation of the Common Lisp Object System (language) Common LISP Object System - (CLOS) An object-oriented extension to Common LISP, based on generic functions, multiple inheritance, declarative method combination and a meta-object protocol. (CLOS CLOS - Common LISP Object System ). Also launched is the Windows version of the Company's acclaimed LispWorks Lisp development environment which offers customers unrivaled productivity on an increasingly powerful set of platforms. For Windows 95 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. users, LispWorks 4.0 is a fully multi-threaded implementation of Harlequin's popular UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). version, offering a trouble-free porting path to customers seeking to migrate their applications from UNIX to the Windows platform. Both new products are founded upon Harlequin's unique and extensive experience in serving thousands of Lisp customers around the world. The Harlequin Approach Harlequin understands the needs of programmers who, like Harlequin's own development teams, work to deliver end-user applications that solve real-world business problems. As a major developer of dynamic object-oriented technologies, Harlequin's software development efforts are widely respected for their ability to solve extraordinary problems - the problems which defeat other companies and technologies are the problems that Harlequin routinely addresses. The Company's tools in these areas include their Lisp and forthcoming Dylan application development environments. Harlequin's experience and expertise extends to the latest enabling technologies such as Intelligent Agents and Web applications. A major developer of electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. software, Harlequin also develops and markets vertical applications serving law enforcement, finance, insurance, and other industries. The company currently delivers over twenty products to these extremely diverse markets. Established in 1986, Harlequin employs more than 300 people across 11 sites world-wide and maintains a strong business presence in the United States, Europe, Australia and the Asia-Pacific basin. -0- LispWorks is a registered trademark and Liquid Common Lisp is a trademark of The Harlequin Group Limited. Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Dylan is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc. All other brand or product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Harlequin Limited Clive Harris +44 1625 588005 cliveh@harlequin.com http://www.harlequin.com / |
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