Harlequin (software Company)

Harlequin (software Company)

Harlequin was formerly a technology company based in Cambridge, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts. They specialized in printing applications, graphical applications, law enforcement applications, and programming language implementations. Harlequin employees sometimes referred to themselves as "The 'Late Binding' company" and the company eventually evolved into a Think Tank for advanced technologies.

After Global Graphics purchased Harlequin, they spun off the Lisp, AI, and law enforcement application groups as Xanalys, and they spun off the Harlequin Dylan team as Functional Objects. These organisational changes destroyed Harlequin's Think Tank potential. Global Graphics had acquired Harlequin primarily for the PostScript technologies, and it still continues to develop and market them under the Harlequin name.