i. From the Jargon File: "The dominant HLL among hackers until the early 1980s, LISP has since shared the throne with C." Even though it's not the dominant HLL

i. From the Jargon File: "The dominant HLL among hackers until the early 1980s, LISP has since shared the throne with C." Even though it's not the dominant HLL today, it's been around for 50 years. There's a lot of area under that curve. ii. It's properly a family of languages, and they usually have "Lisp" in the name (plus Scheme, and now Clojure -- still a small enough set you can remember them all). The Algol family of languages don't all have "Algol" in the name, and the Simula-style object systems don't all have "Simula" in the name, even though both of those are extremely popular today.