Re:The Revival of Medley/Interlisp
by MattHeffron on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:09PM
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why Beckman Coulter Life Sciences supported the development of Swish, an extension of Chez Scheme
Having worked at Beckman¹ from 1978-2022, I strongly suspect that the support of a Scheme-based system was due to the educational background of several of the senior developers in that group of the Life Sciences software development team.
¹ Beckman Instruments
-> SmithKline Beckman
-> Beckman Instruments
-> Beckman Coulter
-> Beckman Coulter acquired by Danaher 2011
-> Beckman Coulter Capillary Electrophoresis business moved (2013) to AB Sciex (also a Danaher company)
Having worked at Beckman¹ from 1978-2022, I strongly suspect that the support of a Scheme-based system was due to the educational background of several of the senior developers in that group of the Life Sciences software development team.
¹ Beckman Instruments -> SmithKline Beckman -> Beckman Instruments -> Beckman Coulter -> Beckman Coulter acquired by Danaher 2011 -> Beckman Coulter Capillary Electrophoresis business moved (2013) to AB Sciex (also a Danaher company)