Think Tank Spin Offs
In January 2005 employees founded the independently-owned LispWorks Limited to focus on the Lisp business.
Several of Harlequin's other assets and technologies have also been acquired and open sourced by companies founded by former Harlequin employees.
- Functional Objects Inc was founded in 1999 to continue development and production of the Dylan IDE. In 2004 all code was open sourced to The Gwydion Maintainers. They renamed the IDE to Open Dylan.
- Ravenbrook Limited acquired the Memory Management Reference, a public resource on memory management and garbage collection, and the Memory Pool System, a flexible memory manager and garbage collector now open sourced.
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