How we got Common LISP Standard
Calculations for atomic weapons and space based delivery systems for the same are the step father the computer industry. LISP is the second oldest high level programming language, FORTRAN was the first. Both conceieved in the 1950s. Artificial Intelligence, a term coined by LISP’s father John McCarthy, to pigeon hole the space he was interested in exploring.
LISP was developed in several dialects thought the ’80s, a stanard committee was created to create a common dialect which we call Common LISP.
It is my belief that the standard committee did a good job on the standard. The ’80s also brought refined compiler techniques and hardware that makes it possible to run LISP on today’s computers.
McCarthy upto 1980s
The history section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
The Standard Committee
In 1986 the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3J13 Committee was created to create a standard for LISP.
Techinical Referencs and the ANSI Standard
This page coves the two versions of the standard through ANSI the standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_the_Language
The HyperSpec
Most discussions of the LISP stamdard are based on the standard base document knonow as the HyperSpec