This comparison is inappropriate. When Common Lisp was standardized, the goal was to unify several different Lisp dialects, not to make the language "small." Furthermore, there was no standard library for Common Lisp. The language itself is its standard library. If anything, the language by itself is too small for a lot of modern applications. (The situation is different now; there are hundreds of libraries to fill in the missing pieces of Common Lisp. But they're not standardized like the core language is.)