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- Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
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- SECOND 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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