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But the title of the post wasn't a Common Lisp ... it was a Lisp interpreter which technically Racket is a Lisp.



> But the title of the post wasn't a Common Lisp ... it was a Lisp interpreter which technically Racket is a Lisp.

Common Lisp is Lisp: it's a standard which specifies the minimum required functionality of a Lisp implementation. Anything which doesn't meet that standard isn't Lisp.

Scheme, Racket, Hylang, Clojure may each be a Lisp, but none is Lisp (unless one of them has bothered to implement the Common Lisp standard).




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