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by kazinator 2314 days ago
"Lisp" does not and should not be used to mean "Common Lisp", though such metonymy is understandable in the context discussion and documentation of a particular dialect.

When I use the word "Lisp", I'm strictly referring to a family of languages ... that feature lists terminated by a symbol nil, which is also the Boolean false, those lists being made of mutable cons cells acessed by car, cdr, rplaca and so on.