When people propose that they need a language which is easier to
compile than CL because it reduces the implementation resources
I really begin to wonder.
The differences between compiling CL, Scheme, Dylan, EULISP, or whatever
are rather trivial compared with the difficulting of generating
good code for RISC architectures, properly interfacing with
the operating system and competing with the
debugging and general code development environments available
in products such as Microsoft Visual C++.