From: Jeff Dalton
Subject: Re: ISO/IEC CD 13816 -- ISLisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <DIytnz.AzA@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
······@tools.bbnplanet.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

>In article <················@naggum.no>, Erik Naggum  <····@naggum.no> wrote:
>>"6. ISLisp shall promote efficient implementations and applications."
>>[...]

>Basically, criterion 6 (quoted above) was a major reason for the
>differences between ISLisp and Common Lisp.  The feeling among many of the
>ISO Lisp committee members was that CL was too big and complex to be able
>to be implemented efficiently (several existing implementation
>notwithstanding).

Why the "notwithstanding"?

They (ISO's WG-16) knew about the implementations and their properties.

Now, (6) above is a design goal.  It is not directly an expression
of what were thought to be problems with Common Lisp and should not
be read as if it were.

-- jd