Thanks. It's what I believed but smart people told me that lambdatalk is not implemented with lists at its core and so can't be defined as a lisp's dialect. Ano

Thanks. It's what I believed but smart people told me that lambdatalk is not implemented with lists at its core and so can't be defined as a lisp's dialect. Another reason comes from the regexp based evaluation, working on a string from beginning to end, reading and writing in situ like a Turing machine, and also from the way lambdas work as pure text replacement processes, like a beta-reduction in lambda-calculus. In fact the dwarf lambdatalk and the giants Lisp/Scheme/... are all descending from the same tree, the lambda calculus.