16:29:36nyef"Expecting the Lisp community to provide COMMON LISP for little or no cost is not sensible." -- Brooks and Gabriel, "A Critique of Common Lisp", 1984.
16:30:20nyef"[A] small program should run in a small amount of physical memory." -- Same paper.
16:31:02nyef(Yes, let's *ignore* data size in this statement, and concentrate only on program size.)
16:33:29nyef"Small programs should not lead to inherently poor paging performance." -- Wasn't it known at the time that all paging systems were vulnerable to certain access patterns causing worst-case paging performance, and that a program to generate such an access pattern would, itself, be tiny?