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It seems to me that Apple has had a rich history of interesting languages: Squeak, Dylan, Hypertalk, AppleScript and Swift. Those are just the ones I know of.

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Apple post Steve Jobs' return has been more strategic and conservative in their PL investments. Hence why swift was kind of a surprise.

You forgot Mac Lisp and Object Pascal. :)

Pedantic note: it was called Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL), not to be confused with MacLisp, which predates both Apple and Common Lisp and is from MIT's Project MAC.

I confess I didn't bother to search for the real name, so I typed from heart.

As side note, here is a very interesting post about the system:

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_V...

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