The original Common Lisp was more like a community work. It led to an understanding about the language in early 1983. A book about the language was then published in 1984: CLtL1.
The work on the ANSI CL standard started then in 1986 using the ANSI standardization process. An intermediate language description (not a work of ANSI) was published as CLtL2. The ANSI CL standard then still took a few years more work to finalize and publish a standard document.
The work on the ANSI CL standard started then in 1986 using the ANSI standardization process. An intermediate language description (not a work of ANSI) was published as CLtL2. The ANSI CL standard then still took a few years more work to finalize and publish a standard document.