"Common Lisp is not a beautiful crystal of programming language design. It's a scruffy workshop with a big pegboard wall of tools, a thin layer of sawdust on the floor, a filing cabinet in the office with a couple of drawers that open perpendicular to the rest, [...]"
"This historical baggage is a price paid to ensure Common Lisp had a future."
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Pitman gave a lecture for #NYClisp in December talking about lisp and standards for anyone interested in the topic of lisp and standards, which Masinter was at and asked questions about.