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<H1><A NAME=SECTION00400000000000000000> Acknowledgments </A></H1>
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FIRST EDITION (1984)<br>
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Common Lisp was designed
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by a diverse group of people affiliated with many institutions.
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Contributors to the
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design and implementation of Common Lisp and to the polishing of this book
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are hereby gratefully acknowledged:
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Paul Anagnostopoulos Digital Equipment Corporation
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Dan Aronson Carnegie-Mellon University
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Alan Bawden Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Eric Benson University of Utah, Stanford University, and Symbolics
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Incorporated
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Jon Bentley Carnegie-Mellon University and Bell Laboratories
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Jerry Boetje Digital Equipment Corporation
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Gary Brooks Texas Instruments
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Rodney A. Brooks Stanford University
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Gary L. Brown Digital Equipment Corporation
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Richard L. Bryan Symbolics, Incorporated
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Glenn S. Burke Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Howard I. Cannon Symbolics, Incorporated
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George J. Carrette Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Robert Cassels Symbolics, Incorporated
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Monica Cellio Carnegie-Mellon University
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David Dill Carnegie-Mellon University
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Scott E. Fahlman Carnegie-Mellon University
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Richard J. Fateman University of California, Berkeley
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Neal Feinberg Carnegie-Mellon University
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Ron Fischer Rutgers University
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John Foderaro University of California, Berkeley
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Steve Ford Texas Instruments
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Richard P. Gabriel Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National
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Laboratory
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Joseph Ginder Carnegie-Mellon University and Perq Systems Corp.
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Bernard S. Greenberg Symbolics, Incorporated
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Richard Greenblatt Lisp Machines Incorporated (LMI)
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Martin L. Griss University of Utah and Hewlett-Packard Incorporated
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Steven Handerson Carnegie-Mellon University
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Charles L. Hedrick Rutgers University
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Gail Kaiser Carnegie-Mellon University
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Earl A. Killian Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Steve Krueger Texas Instruments
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John L. Kulp Symbolics, Incorporated
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Jim Large Carnegie-Mellon University
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Rob Maclachlan Carnegie-Mellon University
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William Maddox Carnegie-Mellon University
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Larry M. Masinter Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
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John McCarthy Stanford University
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Michael E. McMahon Symbolics, Incorporated
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Brian Milnes Carnegie-Mellon University
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David A. Moon Symbolics, Incorporated
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Beryl Morrison Digital Equipment Corporation
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Don Morrison University of Utah
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Dan Pierson Digital Equipment Corporation
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Kent M. Pitman Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jonathan Rees Yale University
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Walter van Roggen Digital Equipment Corporation
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Susan Rosenbaum Texas Instruments
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William L. Scherlis Carnegie-Mellon University
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Lee Schumacher Carnegie-Mellon University
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Richard M. Stallman Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Barbara K. Steele Carnegie-Mellon University
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Guy L. Steele Jr. Carnegie-Mellon University and Tartan Laboratories
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Incorporated
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Peter Szolovits Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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William vanMelle Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
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Ellen Waldrum Texas Instruments
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Allan C. Wechsler Symbolics, Incorporated
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Daniel L. Weinreb Symbolics, Incorporated
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Jon L White Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
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Skef Wholey Carnegie-Mellon University
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Richard Zippel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Leonard Zubkoff Carnegie-Mellon University and Tartan Laboratories
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Some contributions were relatively small; others involved enormous
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expenditures of effort and great dedication. A few of the contributors
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served more as worthy adversaries than as benefactors (and do not
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necessarily endorse the final design reported here),
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but their pointed criticisms were just as important to the polishing of Common Lisp
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as all the positively phrased suggestions.
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All of the people named above were helpful in one way or another,
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and I am grateful for the interest and spirit of cooperation
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that allowed most decisions to be made by consensus after due discussion.
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Considerable encouragement and moral support were also provided by:
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Norma Abel Digital Equipment Corporation
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Roger Bate Texas Instruments
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Harvey Cragon Texas Instruments
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Dennis Duncan Digital Equipment Corporation
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Sam Fuller Digital Equipment Corporation
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A. Nico Habermann Carnegie-Mellon University
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Berthold K. P. Horn Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Gene Kromer Texas Instruments
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Gene Matthews Texas Instruments
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Allan Newell Carnegie-Mellon University
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Dana Scott Carnegie-Mellon University
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Harry Tennant Texas Instruments
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Patrick H. Winston Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Lowell Wood Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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William A. Wulf Carnegie-Mellon University and Tartan Laboratories
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I am very grateful to each of them.
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Jan Zubkoff of Carnegie-Mellon University
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provided a great deal of organization,
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secretarial support, and unfailing good cheer in the face of adversity.
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The development of Common Lisp would most probably not have been possible
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without the electronic message system provided by the ARPANET.
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Design decisions were made on several hundred distinct points, for the
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most part by consensus, and by simple majority vote when necessary.
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Except for two one-day face-to-face meetings, all of the language design
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and discussion was done through the ARPANET message system, which
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permitted effortless dissemination of messages to dozens of people, and
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several interchanges per day. The message system also provided
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automatic archiving of the entire discussion, which has proved
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invaluable in the preparation of this reference manual. Over the course
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of thirty months, approximately 3000 messages were sent (an average of
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three per day), ranging in length from one line to twenty pages.
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Assuming 5000 characters per printed page of text, the entire
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discussion totaled about 1100 pages. It would have been substantially
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more difficult to have conducted this discussion by any other means,
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and would have required much more time.
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The ideas in Common Lisp have come from many sources and been polished by
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much discussion. I am responsible for the form of this
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book, and for any errors or inconsistencies that may remain;
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but the credit for the design and support of Common Lisp lies with
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the individuals named above, each of whom has made significant
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contributions.
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The organization and content
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of this book were inspired in large part by the
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<i>MacLISP Reference Manual</i> by David A. Moon and others [<A HREF="node368.html#MOONUAL">33</A>],
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and by the <i>LISP Machine Manual</i> (fourth edition)
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by Daniel Weinreb and David Moon [<A HREF="node368.html#BLUELISPM">55</A>],
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which in turn acknowledges the efforts of Richard Stallman, Mike McMahon,
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Alan Bawden, Glenn Burke, and ``many people too numerous to list.''
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I thank Phyllis Keenan, Chase Duffy,
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Virginia Anderson,
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John Osborn,
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and Jonathan Baker of Digital Press for their
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help in preparing this book for publication.
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Jane Blake did an admirable job of copy-editing.
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James Gibson and Katherine Downs of Waldman Graphics were most cooperative
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in typesetting this book from my on-line manuscript files.
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I am grateful to Carnegie-Mellon University and to
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Tartan Laboratories Incorporated for supporting me in the writing
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of this book over the last three years.
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Part of the work on this book was
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done in conjunction with the Carnegie-Mellon University Spice Project,
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an effort to construct an advanced scientific software development
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environment for personal computers.
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The Spice Project is
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supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department
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of Defense, ARPA Order 3597, monitored by the Air Force Avionics
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Laboratory under contract F33615-78-C-1551. The views
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and conclusions contained in this book are those of the author
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and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies,
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either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research
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Projects Agency or the U.S. Government.
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Most of the writing of this book took place between
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midnight and 5 A.M. I am grateful to Barbara, Julia, and Peter
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for putting up with it, and for their love.
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<PRE>
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Guy L. Steele Jr.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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March 1984
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Would it be wonderful if, under the<br>
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pressure of all these difficulties, the<br>
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Convention should have been forced<br>
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into some deviations from that artifi-<br>
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cial structure and regular symmetry <br>
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which an abstract view of the subject <br>
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might lead an ingenious theorist to <br>
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bestow on a constitution planned in <br>
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his closet or in his imagination?<br>
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- <i>James Madison, The Federalist</i>
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<i>No. 37, January 11, 1788</i>
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