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Symbolics (1985) was using
New Flavors (a message-sending model, like Java today), Xerox was using
CommonLoops,
Lisp Machine Incorporated was using
Object Lisp (Bobrow, 1986), and
Hewlett-Packard proposed using
Common Objects (Kempf, 1987). The groups vied with each other in the context of the standardization effort going on for Common Lisp at the time and finally settled on a standard based on CommonLoops and New Flavors." p. 108 of Veitch 1998.
Veitch, Jim (1998). "A History and Description of CLOS". In
Salus, Peter H. (ed.). Handbook of Programming Languages, Volume IV: Functional and Logic Programming Languages (1st ed.). Macmillan Technical Publishing. pp. 107–158.
ISBN1-57870-011-6.