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by cannabis_sam 2503 days ago
That is correct.

From Landin’s paper:

6. Relationship to LISP

ISWIM can be looked on as an attempt to deliver LISP from its eponymous commitment to lists, its reputation for hand-to-mouth storage allocation, the hardware dependent flavor of its pedagogy, its heavy bracketing, and its compromises with tradition.