Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!houpt
From: houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Charles (Chuck) Houpt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Common Lisp subsets - are there any?
Message-ID: <30255@cornell.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 89 18:07:58 GMT
Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP
Reply-To: houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Chuck Houpt)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
Lines: 14

I recently re-read the article "A Critique of Common Lisp" by Rodney
Brooks and Richard Gabriel in the Proc. 1984 ACM Sym. on Lisp and
Functional Programming. The article discusses many of the flaws in
Common Lisp.

The major flaw is that Common Lisp is simply too big and complex to be
implemented efficiently on stock hardware. Brooks and Gabriel
suggest the creation of a standard subset of Common Lisp. The subset
would be easy to implement on stock hardware.

Does there exist a standard or de facto subset of Common Lisp?

-Chuck Houpt
 houpt@svax.cs.cornell.edu