> Common Lisp people insisting on "Lisp" denoting "Common Lisp" are simply wrong, and that's that. I don't think that's really true. After all, 'Common Lisp i

> Common Lisp people insisting on "Lisp" denoting "Common Lisp" are simply wrong, and that's that. I don't think that's really true. After all, 'Common Lisp is actually derived from dialects that trace their lineage to Lisp (the Lisp, unqualified) standardizing what is common among them,' to quote someone. The intent of the Common Lisp standardisation effort was to standardise a common Lisp that programmers could rely on.