Creator of NewtonScript here… Hi Mikel! I'm glad to hear you say it was good-natured, because I loved Dylan—having been the Newton team's Cambridge liaison and Ralph cheerleader since the Cambridge team joined Apple. I was just head-down trying to build a small language that had at least some of the goodness of Dylan so we didn't ship something that was just a C++ app in a box!
I know you loved Dylan, and I know what you were up to with NewtonScript.
I did a little work in NewtonScript for the shipping Newton before I migrated to NeXT. It worked. Or it would have, if Newton had been a better fit for the market of the time.
The Cambridge team (or big chunks of it) later became Clozure Associates, Lisp consultants and maintainers of Clozure Common Lisp. I've worked for them off and on over the years on some interesting stuff.
