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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:45:25 JST clacke

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   • Hayley
   • Alfred M. Szmidt
   • Kent Pitman

   @hayley People refer to versions of the spec and implementations with extensions as dialects of C.

   C89, GNU C, etc. Maybe MISRA-C too.

   The variation is much smaller than between un-Common Lisps though, as C is more narrowly defined than the concept of a Lisp.

   @kentpitman @amszmidt

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     Hayley (hayley@social.applied-langua.ge)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:45:26 JST Hayley

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     • Alfred M. Szmidt
     • Kent Pitman
     @amszmidt @kentpitman Lisp is unique in that we have Lisp dialects but no one ever says C dialect. (Okay, maybe I have read "Forth dialect" before.)
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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:45:27 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

     • Kent Pitman

     @kentpitman As you say, it is light-heated, and defining what is or isn't a Lisp is really a yak shaving exercise. Nothing makes Clojure Un-Lispy, I think. I don't think it is very Lisp-y either, but that becomes a philosophical and personal discussion with no end. At the end ... it does not matter, I just get slightly annoyed when everything and anything becomes "A Lisp", when nobody goes around calling Javascript a C, despite syntax similarities, or semantics, or what have you.