There is also the context of the reviewer. Richard P Gabriel was one of the six persons responsible for the CLOS specification: Daniel G. Bobrow, Linda G. DeMi

There is also the context of the reviewer. Richard P Gabriel was one of the six persons responsible for the CLOS specification: Daniel G. Bobrow, Linda G. DeMichiel, Richard P. Gabriel, Sonya E. Keene, Gregor Kiczales, and David A. Moon. Richard was also the CEO and founder of Lucid, Inc. - a Common Lisp vendor. His company developed and sold a production quality Common Lisp implementation for various UNIX systems.