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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. Global Graphics acquired Harlequin primarily for the PostScript technologies, and it still continues to develop and market them under the Harlequin name. ==Think Tank products== Harlequin had two main lines of business * digital pre-press (primarily ScriptWorks, a PostScript language compatible RIP, now selling under the name Harlequin RIP), * and modern language development environments (compilers and IDEs) for Lisp (LispWorks), ML (MLWorks) and Dylan (DylanWorks). Other products included data analysis tools created using LispWorks, the Lisp IDE. The Think Tank structure of the Harlequin can also be recognized via the development of a flexible and modular memory management system, the Memory Pool System (MPS). MPS was designed * to support a wide range of requirements from high-speed manual memory management, to complex garbage collection with many different types of reference. * to support two product ScriptWorks PostScript RIP, and their Harlequin Dylan compiler and IDE for the Dylan programming language. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harlequin (software company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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