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Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
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Acknowledgments
FIRST EDITION (1984)
Common Lisp was designed by a diverse group of people affiliated with many
institutions.
Contributors to the design and implementation of Common Lisp and to the
polishing of this book are hereby gratefully acknowledged:
Paul Anagnostopoulos Digital Equipment Corporation
Dan Aronson Carnegie-Mellon University
Alan Bawden Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eric Benson University of Utah, Stanford University, and Symbolics
Incorporated
Jon Bentley Carnegie-Mellon University and Bell Laboratories
Jerry Boetje Digital Equipment Corporation
Gary Brooks Texas Instruments
Rodney A. Brooks Stanford University
Gary L. Brown Digital Equipment Corporation
Richard L. Bryan Symbolics, Incorporated
Glenn S. Burke Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howard I. Cannon Symbolics, Incorporated
George J. Carrette Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Cassels Symbolics, Incorporated
Monica Cellio Carnegie-Mellon University
David Dill Carnegie-Mellon University
Scott E. Fahlman Carnegie-Mellon University
Richard J. Fateman University of California, Berkeley
Neal Feinberg Carnegie-Mellon University
Ron Fischer Rutgers University
John Foderaro University of California, Berkeley
Steve Ford Texas Instruments
Richard P. Gabriel Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
Joseph Ginder Carnegie-Mellon University and Perq Systems Corp.
Bernard S. Greenberg Symbolics, Incorporated
Richard Greenblatt Lisp Machines Incorporated (LMI)
Martin L. Griss University of Utah and Hewlett-Packard Incorporated
Steven Handerson Carnegie-Mellon University
Charles L. Hedrick Rutgers University
Gail Kaiser Carnegie-Mellon University
Earl A. Killian Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steve Krueger Texas Instruments
John L. Kulp Symbolics, Incorporated
Jim Large Carnegie-Mellon University
Rob Maclachlan Carnegie-Mellon University
William Maddox Carnegie-Mellon University
Larry M. Masinter Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
John McCarthy Stanford University
Michael E. McMahon Symbolics, Incorporated
Brian Milnes Carnegie-Mellon University
David A. Moon Symbolics, Incorporated
Beryl Morrison Digital Equipment Corporation
Don Morrison University of Utah
Dan Pierson Digital Equipment Corporation
Kent M. Pitman Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan Rees Yale University
Walter van Roggen Digital Equipment Corporation
Susan Rosenbaum Texas Instruments
William L. Scherlis Carnegie-Mellon University
Lee Schumacher Carnegie-Mellon University
Richard M. Stallman Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara K. Steele Carnegie-Mellon University
Guy L. Steele Jr. Carnegie-Mellon University and Tartan Laboratories
Incorporated
Peter Szolovits Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William vanMelle Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
Ellen Waldrum Texas Instruments
Allan C. Wechsler Symbolics, Incorporated
Daniel L. Weinreb Symbolics, Incorporated
Jon L White Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
Skef Wholey Carnegie-Mellon University
Richard Zippel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leonard Zubkoff Carnegie-Mellon University and Tartan Laboratories
Incorporated
Some contributions were relatively small; others involved enormous expenditures
of effort and great dedication. A few of the contributors served more as worthy
adversaries than as benefactors (and do not necessarily endorse the final
design reported here), but their pointed criticisms were just as important to
the polishing of Common Lisp as all the positively phrased suggestions. All of
the people named above were helpful in one way or another, and I am grateful
for the interest and spirit of cooperation that allowed most decisions to be
made by consensus after due discussion.
Considerable encouragement and moral support were also provided by:
Norma Abel Digital Equipment Corporation
Roger Bate Texas Instruments
Harvey Cragon Texas Instruments
Dennis Duncan Digital Equipment Corporation
Sam Fuller Digital Equipment Corporation
A. Nico Habermann Carnegie-Mellon University
Berthold K. P. Horn Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gene Kromer Texas Instruments
Gene Matthews Texas Instruments
Allan Newell Carnegie-Mellon University
Dana Scott Carnegie-Mellon University
Harry Tennant Texas Instruments
Patrick H. Winston Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lowell Wood Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
William A. Wulf Carnegie-Mellon University and Tartan Laboratories
Incorporated
I am very grateful to each of them.
Jan Zubkoff of Carnegie-Mellon University provided a great deal of
organization, secretarial support, and unfailing good cheer in the face of
adversity.
The development of Common Lisp would most probably not have been possible
without the electronic message system provided by the ARPANET. Design decisions
were made on several hundred distinct points, for the most part by consensus,
and by simple majority vote when necessary. Except for two one-day face-to-face
meetings, all of the language design and discussion was done through the
ARPANET message system, which permitted effortless dissemination of messages to
dozens of people, and several interchanges per day. The message system also
provided automatic archiving of the entire discussion, which has proved
invaluable in the preparation of this reference manual. Over the course of
thirty months, approximately 3000 messages were sent (an average of three per
day), ranging in length from one line to twenty pages. Assuming 5000 characters
per printed page of text, the entire discussion totaled about 1100 pages. It
would have been substantially more difficult to have conducted this discussion
by any other means, and would have required much more time.
The ideas in Common Lisp have come from many sources and been polished by much
discussion. I am responsible for the form of this book, and for any errors or
inconsistencies that may remain; but the credit for the design and support of
Common Lisp lies with the individuals named above, each of whom has made
significant contributions.
The organization and content of this book were inspired in large part by the
MacLISP Reference Manual by David A. Moon and others [33], and by the LISP
Machine Manual (fourth edition) by Daniel Weinreb and David Moon [55], which in
turn acknowledges the efforts of Richard Stallman, Mike McMahon, Alan Bawden,
Glenn Burke, and ``many people too numerous to list.''
I thank Phyllis Keenan, Chase Duffy, Virginia Anderson, John Osborn, and
Jonathan Baker of Digital Press for their help in preparing this book for
publication. Jane Blake did an admirable job of copy-editing. James Gibson and
Katherine Downs of Waldman Graphics were most cooperative in typesetting this
book from my on-line manuscript files.
I am grateful to Carnegie-Mellon University and to Tartan Laboratories
Incorporated for supporting me in the writing of this book over the last three
years.
Part of the work on this book was done in conjunction with the Carnegie-Mellon
University Spice Project, an effort to construct an advanced scientific
software development environment for personal computers. The Spice Project is
supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of
Defense, ARPA Order 3597, monitored by the Air Force Avionics Laboratory under
contract F33615-78-C-1551. The views and conclusions contained in this book are
those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official
policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency or the U.S. Government.
Most of the writing of this book took place between midnight and 5 A.M. I am
grateful to Barbara, Julia, and Peter for putting up with it, and for their
love.
Guy L. Steele Jr.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
March 1984
Would it be wonderful if, under the
pressure of all these difficulties, the
Convention should have been forced
into some deviations from that artifi-
cial structure and regular symmetry
which an abstract view of the subject
might lead an ingenious theorist to
bestow on a constitution planned in
his closet or in his imagination?
- James Madison, The Federalist
No. 37, January 11, 1788
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