It is the tight coupling of the terms that is doing the disservice. It is a modern language. -> T. It is a lisp. -> T. However, I only hear, 'It is a modern

It is the tight coupling of the terms that is doing the disservice. It is a modern language. -> T. It is a lisp. -> T. However, I only hear, 'It is a modern dialect of lisp,' when I am being told why I should switch from Scheme or CL to Clojure. This is a non-argument (there is no spec for what a 'modern' language includes). It also has the implication that whatever I am using is in some way non-modern. (Which is an odd attribution for something which is actively developed and I do my daily coding in). Is Java modern? How about Python? Scala? Ruby? It seems like a weird non-category. When I boot up sbcl, it isn't like i'm programming in lisp 1.5. New would be cool, or saying it has modern features, also good. Gonna make a new spec for Common Lisp, Common Lisp the Ancient Language.