This is more nomenclature than anything. We have a broad definition of what a lisp is, but a fairly narrow definition of what a C variant is. I'd argue that C++

This is more nomenclature than anything. We have a broad definition of what a lisp is, but a fairly narrow definition of what a C variant is. I'd argue that C++ and Java have more in common with each other than, say, Shen and Emacs Lisp.