······@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