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This is a fantastic read. A look behind the scenes of the creation of the Common Lisp standard and the HyperSpec: The aims, forces, struggles, personalities and random events that caused it to be what it is.

It's a written version of a talk given by Kent Pitman, the main editor of the standard, at Lisp50@OOPSLA at OOPSA 2008:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html

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