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Is it really? If we go back to the roots, lisp is made of what John McCarthy calls the Primary S-Functions which are atom, cons, car, cdr, and eq (a.k.a =). Of

Is it really? If we go back to the roots, lisp is made of what John McCarthy calls the Primary S-Functions which are atom, cons, car, cdr, and eq (a.k.a =). Of these five, clojure only has two (atom and eq)

kbp 9y ago
> Of these five, clojure only has two (atom and eq) You can't have atom without conses (well, it would just be (lambda (x) t)); which Clojure function are you thinking of?
lispm 9y ago
Clojure has an ATOM function, but it does something completely different from Lisp's ATOM function.