He first encountered it when he mistakenly sent the newly freely-available Postscript source of CLtL2 to a laser printer at his high school, single-sided, 1-up. This made the language's rather large size immediately apparent.
It would be three or four years before he learned Scheme and another three or four before he spent time seriously considering Common Lisp, though.
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