Steele served on the committee and gave them permission to use any or all parts of its first edition in their efforts.

Documents published by X3J13 were later used, together with quotations from certain committee members, in the production of Common Lisp the Language Second Edition, which was released in 1990, giving the Common Lisp community a way to preview many features that were expected to appear in the committee's final standard document. That edition bears similarity to the standard in content,