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Minor nitpick on the article: Common Lisp is not a family, it's a standard with many implementations[1][2].

Common Lisp is a member of the Lisp familiy of languages, just like Clojure is.

[1] http://www.cliki.net/Common%20Lisp%20implementation

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Implementations



There are implementations which implement the standard, slight variations of it (lower case identifiers, ...) or large extended versions of it (+ MOP + CLOS everywhere + ...).

There are also derived languages like Stella, L, SubL and others which implement some kind of subset.

Then there is ISLisp, which is very similar, but slightly simplified.


Thanks. I changed the wording to reflect this. Is it better now?


Yup, thanks!




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