I worked on several vertical and in-house apps for the Newton platform back in the day. I was at the launch in Boston and the first couple of development conferences. Landon Dyer&#x27;s work and Walter Smith&#x27;s work on the object store and the NewtonScript language implementation was amazing. It had some performance and practical issues and bugs, but developing for the thing was largely a joy -- the closest I&#x27;ve come to the live coding and debugging on a dynamic runtime that people loved about the original Lisp machines. I&#x27;ve always felt that we would have been better off with a NewtonScript 3.0 than either Java or JavaScript. JavaScript in particular -- it was like the basic ideas of NewtonScript implemented badly by people with no taste and a &quot;kitchen sink&quot; approach to language design.<p>Along with Apple Dylan, the platforms were really ahead of their time. Going back to Objective-C felt like such a huge step backwards. And now I&#x27;m developing primarily in C and C++ and still wishing for something better. I satisfy my not-so-secret longings by writing Haskell in my spare time...