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<H1><A NAME=SECTION00300000000000000000> Acknowledgments </A></H1>
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SECOND EDITION<br>
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First and foremost, I must thank the many people in the Lisp
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community who have worked so hard to specify, implement, and use
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Common Lisp. Some of these have volunteered many hours
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of effort as members of ANSI committee X3J13. Others
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have made presentations or proposals to X3J13, and yet others
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have sent suggestions and corrections to the first edition directly to me.
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This book builds on their efforts as well as mine.
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An early draft of this book was made available to all members
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of X3J13 for their criticism. I have also worked with
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the many public documents that have been written during the course
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of the committee's work (which is not over yet).
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It is my hope that this book is an accurate reflection of the
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committee's actions as of October 1989.
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Nevertheless, any errors or inconsistencies are my responsibility.
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The fact that I have made a draft available to certain persons,
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received feedback from them, or thanked them in these
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acknowledgments does not necessarily imply that any one of them
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or any of the institutions with which they are affiliated endorse this book
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or anything of its contents.
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<P>
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Digital Press and I gave permission to X3J13 to use any or all parts
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of the first edition in the production of an ANSI Common Lisp standard.
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Conversely, in writing this book I have worked with publicly available
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documents produced by X3J13 in the course of its work, and in some cases
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as a courtesy have obtained the consent of the authors of those documents
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to quote them extensively. This common ancestry will result in similarities
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between this book and the emerging ANSI Common Lisp standard (that is the
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purpose, after all). Nevertheless, this second edition
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has no official connection whatsoever
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with X3J13 or ANSI, nor is it endorsed by either of those institutions.
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The following persons have been members of X3J13 or involved in its
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activities at one time or another:
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Jim Allard, Dave Andre, Jim Antonisse, William Arbaugh, John
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Aspinall, Bob Balzer, Gerald Barber, Richard Barber, Kim Barrett,
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David Bartley, Roger Bate, Alan Bawden, Michael Beckerle, Paul
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Beiser, Eric Benson, Daniel Bobrow, Mary Boelk, Skona Brittain, Gary
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Brown, Tom Bucken, Robert Buckley, Gary Byers, Dan Carnese, Bob
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Cassels, Jérôme Chailloux, Kathy Chapman, Thomas Christaller,
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Will Clinger, Peter Coffee, John Cugini, Pavel Curtis, Doug Cutting,
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Christopher Dabrowski, Jeff Dalton, Linda DeMichiel, Fred Discenzo,
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Jerry Duggan, Patrick Dussud, Susan Ennis, Scott Fahlman, Jogn Fitch,
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John Foderaro, Richard Gabriel, Steven Gadol, Nick Gall, Oscar
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Garcia, Robert Giansiracusa, Brad Goldstein, David Gray, Richard
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Greenblatt, George Hadden, Steve Haflich, Dave Henderson, Carl
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Hewitt, Carl Hoffman, Cheng Hu, Masayuki Ida, Takayasu Ito, Sonya
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Keene, James Kempf, Gregory Jennings, Robert Kerns, Gregor Kiczales,
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Kerry Kimbrough, Dieter Kolb, Timothy Koschmann, Ed Krall, Fritz
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Kunze, Aaron Larson, Joachim Laubsch, Kevin Layer, Michael Levin, Ray
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Lim, Thom Linden, David Loeffler, Sandra Loosemore, Barry Margolin,
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Larry Masinter, David Matthews, Robert Mathis, John McCarthy, Chris
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McConnell, Rob McLachlan, Jay Mendelsohn, Martin Mikelsons, Tracey
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Miles, Richard Mlyarnik, David Moon, Jarl Nilsson, Leo Noordhulsen,
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Ronald Ohlander, Julian Padget, Jeff Peck, Jan Pedersen, Bob
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Pellegrino, Crispin Perdue, Dan Pierson, Kent Pitman, Dexter Pratt,
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Christian Quiennec, B. Raghavan, Douglas Rand, Jonathan Rees, Chris
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Richardson, Jeff Rininger, Walter van Roggen, Jeffrey Rosenking, Don
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Sakahara, William Scherlis, David Slater, James Smith, Alan Snyder,
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Angela Sodan, Richard Soley, S. Sridhar, Bill St. Clair, Philip
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Stanhope, Guy Steele, Herbert Stoyan, Hiroshi Torii, Dave Touretzky,
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Paul Tucker, Rick Tucker, Thomas Turba, David Unietis, Mary Van
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Deusen, Ellen Waldrum, Richard Waters, Allen Wechsler, Mark Wegman,
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Jon L White, Skef Wholey, Alexis Wieland, Martin Yonke, Bill York,
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Taiichi Yuasa, Gail Zacharias, and Jan Zubkoff.
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<P>
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I must express particular gratitude and appreciation to a number
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of people for their exceptional efforts:
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Larry Masinter, chairman of
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the X3J13 Cleanup Subcommittee, developed the standard format for
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documenting all proposals to be voted upon. The result has been
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an outstanding tehcnical and historical record of all the actions
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taken by X3J13 to rectify and improve Common Lisp.
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<P>
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Sandra Loosemore, chairwoman of the X3J13 Compiler Subcommittee,
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produced many proposals for clarifying the semantics of the compilation
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process. She has been a diligent stickler for detail and has helped
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to clarify many parts of Common Lisp left vague in the first edition.
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Jon L White, chairman of the X3J13 Iteration Subcommittee,
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supervised the consideration of several controversial
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proposals, one of which (<tt>loop</tt>) was eventually adopted by X3J13.
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<P>
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Thom Linden, chairman of the X3J13 Character Subcommittee,
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led a team in grappling with the difficult problem of accommodating
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various character sets in Common Lisp. One result is that
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Common Lisp will be more attractive for international use.
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<P>
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Kent Pitman, chairman of the X3J13 Error Handling Subcommittee,
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plugged the biggest outstanding
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hole in Common Lisp as described by the first edition.
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<P>
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Kathy Chapman, chairwoman of the X3J13 Drafting Subcommittee,
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and principal author of the draft standard, has not only written
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a great deal of text but also insisted on coherent and consistent
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terminology and pushed the rest of the committee forward when necessary.
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<P>
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Robert Mathis, chairman of X3J13, has kept administrative matters
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flowing smoothly during technical controversies.
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<P>
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Mary Van Deusen, secretary of X3J13, kept excellent minutes
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that were a tremendous aid to me in tracing the history of
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a number of complex discussions.
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<P>
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Jan Zubkoff, X3J13 meeting and mailing
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organizer, knows what's going on, as always.
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She is a master of organization and of physical arrangements.
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Moreover, she once again pulled me out of the fire at the last minute.
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<P>
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Dick Gabriel, international representative for X3J13,
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has kept information flowing smoothly between Europe, Japan,
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and the United States. He provided a great deal of the energy and drive
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for the completion of the Common Lisp Object System specification.
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He has also provided me with a great
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deal of valuable advice and has been on call for last-minute
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consultation at all hours during the final stages of preparation
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for this book.
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<P>
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David Moon has consistently been a source of reason,
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expert knowledge, and careful scrutiny. He has read the
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first edition and the X3J13 proposals perhaps more carefully
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than anyone else.
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<P>
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David Moon, Jon L White, Gregor Kiczales, Robert Mathis, Mary Boelk
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provided extensive feedback on an early draft of this book.
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I thank them as well as the many others who commented in one way
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or another on the draft.
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<P>
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I wish to thank the authors of large proposals to X3J13
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that have made material available for more or less wholesale
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inclusion in this book as distinct chapters.
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This material was produced primarily for the use of X3J13 in its work.
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It has been included here
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on a non-exclusive basis with the consent of the authors.
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<P>
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The author of the chapter on <tt>loop</tt> (Jon L White)
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notes that the chapter is based on documentation
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written at Lucid, Inc., by Molly M. Miller,
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Sonia Orin Lyris, and Kris Dinkel.
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Glenn Burke, Scott Fahlman, Colin Meldrum,
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David Moon, Cris Perdue, and Dick Waters
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contributed to the design of the <tt>loop</tt> macro.
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<P>
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The authors of the Common Lisp Object System specification
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(Daniel G. Bobrow, Linda G. DeMichiel,
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Richard P. Gabriel, Sonya E. Keene, Gregor Kiczales,
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and David A. Moon)
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wish to thank Patrick Dussud, Kenneth Kahn,
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Jim Kempf, Larry Masinter, Mark Stefik,
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Daniel L. Weinreb, and Jon L White
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for their contributions.
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<P>
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The author of the chapter on Conditions (Kent M. Pitman)
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notes that there is a paper [<A HREF="node368.html#EXCEPTIONALSITUATIONS">38</A>]
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containing background information about the design of the
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condition system, which is based on the condition system
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of the Symbolics Lisp Machines <A HREF="node368.html#SIGNALLINGCONDITIONS">[49]</A>.
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The members of the X3J13 Error Handling Subcommittee
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were
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Andy Daniels and Kent Pitman.
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Richard Mlynarik and David A. Moon made major design contributions.
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Useful comments, questions,
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suggestions, and criticisms were provided by
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Paul Anagnostopoulos,
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Alan Bawden,
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William Chiles,
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Pavel Curtis,
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Mary Fontana,
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Dick Gabriel,
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Dick King,
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Susan Lander,
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David D. Loeffler,
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Ken Olum,
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David C. Plummer,
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Alan Snyder,
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Eric Weaver, and
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Daniel L. Weinreb.
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The Condition System was designed specifically to
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accommodate the needs of Common Lisp.
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The design is, however, most directly based on the ``New Error System''
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(NES) developed at Symbolics by David L. Andre,
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Bernard S. Greenberg,
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Mike McMahon,
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David A. Moon, and
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Daniel L. Weinreb.
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The NES was in turn based on experiences with the original Lisp
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Machine error system (developed at MIT), which was found to be
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inadequate for the needs of the modern Lisp Machine environments.
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Many aspects of the NES were inspired by the (PL/I) condition
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system used by the Honeywell Multics operating system. Henry Lieberman
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provided
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conceptual guidance and encouragement in the design of the NES.
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A reimplementation of the NES for non-Symbolics Lisp Machine
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dialects (MIT, LMI, and TI) was done at MIT by Richard M. Stallman.
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During the process
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of that reimplementation, some conceptual changes were made which
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have significantly influenced the Common Lisp Condition System.
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<P>
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As for the smaller but no less important proposals,
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Larry Masinter deserves recognition as an author of over half of them.
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He has worked indefatigably to write up proposals and to polish
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drafts by other authors. Kent Pitman, David Moon, and Sandra Loosemore
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have also been notably prolific,
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as well as Jon L White, Dan Pierson, Walter van Roggen,
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Skona Brittain, Scott Fahlman, and myself.
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Other authors of proposals include
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David Andre,
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John Aspinall,
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Kim Barrett,
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Eric Benson,
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Daniel Bobrow,
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Bob Cassels,
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Kathy Chapman,
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WIlliam Clinger,
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Pavel Curtis,
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Doug Cutting,
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Jeff Dalton,
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Linda DiMichiel,
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Richard Gabriel,
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Steven Haflich,
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Sonya Keene,
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James Kempf,
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Gregor Kiczales,
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Dieter Kolb,
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Barry Margolin,
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Chris McConnell,
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Jeff Peck,
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Jan Pedersen,
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Crispin Perdue,
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Jonathan Rees,
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Don Sakahara,
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David Touretzky,
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Richard Waters, and
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Gail Zacharias.
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<P>
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I am grateful to Donald E. Knuth and his colleagues for producing
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the TeX text formatting system [<A HREF="node368.html#KNUTHTEXBOOK">28</A>],
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which was used to produce
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and typeset the manuscript.
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Knuth did an especially good job of publishing the program for
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TeX [<A HREF="node368.html#KNUTHTEXPROGRAM">29</A>];
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I had to consult the code about eight times while debugging particularly
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complicated macros. Thanks to the extensive indexing
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and cross-references, in each case it took me less than five minutes to
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find the relevant fragment of that 500-page program.
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<P>
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I also owe a debt
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to Leslie Lamport, author of the LaTeX macro package [<A HREF="node368.html#LAMPORTLATEX">30</A>]
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for TeX,
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within which I implemented the document style for this book.
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<P>
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Blue Sky Research sells and supports Textures, an implementation
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of TeX for Apple Macintosh computers; Gayla Groom and Barry Smith
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of Blue Sky Research provided excellent technical support when I
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needed it. Other software tools that were invaluable
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in preparing this book were QuicKeys (sold by CE Software, Inc.),
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which provides keyboard macros;
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Gofer (sold by Microlytics, Inc.), which performs rapid
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text searches in multiple files; Symantec Utilities for Macintosh
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(sold by Symantec Corporation), which saved me from more than one disk crash;
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and the PostScript language and compatible
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fonts (sold by Adobe Systems Incorporated).
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<P>
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Some of this software (such as LaTeX) I obtained for free and some I bought,
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but all have proved to be useful tools of excellent quality.
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I am grateful to these developers for creating them.
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<P>
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Electronic mail has been indispensible to
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the writing of this book, as well to as the work of X3J13.
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(It is a humbling experience to publish a book and then for
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the next five years to receive
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at least one electronic mail message a week, if not twenty, pointing out
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some mistake or defect.)
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Kudos to those develop and maintain the Internet, which arose
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from the Arpanet and other networks.
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<P>
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Chase Duffy, George Horesta, and Will Buddenhagen of Digital Press have given me
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much encouragement and support. David Ford designed the book and
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provided specifications that I could code into TeX.
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Alice Cheyer and Kate Schmit edited the copy for style
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and puzzled over the more obscure jokes with great patience.
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Marilyn Rowland created the index; Tim Evans and I did some polishing.
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Laura Fillmore and her colleagues at Editorial, Inc., have
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tirelessly and meticulously checked one draft after another and
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has kept the paperwork flowing smoothly during the last hectic weeks
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of proofreading, page makeup, and typesetting.
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<P>
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Thinking Machines Corporation has supported all my work with X3J13.
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I thank all my colleagues there for their encouragement and help.
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<P>
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Others who provided indispensible encouragement and support include
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Guy and Nalora Steele; David Steele; Cordon and Ruth Kerns;
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David, Patricia, Tavis, Jacob, Nicholas, and Daniel Auwerda;
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Donald and Denise Kerns; and David, Joyce, and Christine Kerns.
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10 P.M. and 3 A.M. (I'm not as young as I used to be).
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Julia, Peter, and Matthew for putting up with it, and for their love.
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Guy L. Steele Jr.
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Lexington, Massachusetts
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All Saints' Day, 1989
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