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For me the word Lisp means the very simple abstract language that McCarthy designed (no implementation details etc). Common Lisp took those concepts, added many more of its own and became a standard. Scheme and Clojure took the same approach, take the very basic elements of Lisp and add their own concepts on top of it. So, calling Common Lisp the only Lisp just doesn't make any sense at all.


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