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*Standard-Output* Guy L. Steele Jr. Thi.king Machines Corporation Allow me to introduce myself: I am vice chair of ANSI Technical Committee X3.I13 ( C o m m o n Lisp). I have been working for ahnost nine 3'ears on C o m m o n l,isp, along with many dozens of other people who have contributed to the definition, development, and implementation of Common Lisp. The effort began innocently enough in 1981, when several research and implementation groups decided to join forces to curb the divergence of their respective dialects. I volunteered to draft and edit the language specification, and three years later tlae first edition of Common Lisp: The Language was published by l)igital Press. The stated goals of the language design were commonality among certain existing dialects, portability, consistency, expressiveness, compatibility, efficiency, power, and stability (in roughly that order). (Note that ease of implementation and ease of learning were not among these goals! The general intent was to design a language by power implementors for power users.) Through what I believe was a forlunale combination of luck, timing, and technical excellence, C o m m o n Lisp caught on. Since publication of the first specification
ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Jul 1, 1989
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