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Portable Standard Lisp
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<h2 id="criticism">Criticism</h2> <p>Portable Standard Lisp has fewer features than other Lisps, such as <a href="/facts/Common_Lisp/mq1pRbSF">Common Lisp</a>, and some people found it unpleasant to use. <a href="/facts/Richard_P._Gabriel/0N3SGIES">Richard P. Gabriel</a> wrote in his popular essay <i>Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big</i>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> "the third most standard Lisp was Portable Standard Lisp, which ran on many machines, but very few people wanted to use it;". </p> <h2 id="timeline">Timeline</h2> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul> <li>Computer programming portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://user.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~ucoluk/research/lisp/generalinfo.html">Official website</a>, Portable Utah Standard Lisp</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Gabriel, Richard P. (May 1985). Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (PDF). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press; Computer Systems Series. pp. 75, 294. ISBN 0-262-07093-6. LCCN 85-15161. <a href="0-262-07093-6" target="_blank">0-262-07093-6</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Gabriel, Richard P. (May 1985). Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (PDF). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press; Computer Systems Series. pp. 75, 294. ISBN 0-262-07093-6. LCCN 85-15161. <a href="0-262-07093-6" target="_blank">0-262-07093-6</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Gabriel, Richard P. "Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big". Dreamsongs. Retrieved 2019-04-25. <a href="/wiki/Richard_P._Gabriel" target="_blank">/wiki/Richard_P._Gabriel</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>