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by iak8god 1544 days ago
> Common Lisp, Scheme and Emacs Lisp... all belong in the same family

Could you say more about what you mean by this? Is there another family of Lisps that excludes these three? I've met people who make a big deal about lisp-1 vs lisp-2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp-1_vs._Lisp-2), and which is the right way to be a Lisp, but I think maybe those people just enjoy being pedantic.

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I was referring to Clojure which going by syntax/semantics does not belong in the same family as Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp.
Makes sense. I think many people would put Scheme in its own branch as well.

E.g. https://gist.github.com/Aethaeryn/3036597