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Re:Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp? by linfocito on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:33AM (#17631543)
Fair point, but in the specific case the differences matter indeed. StumpWM is coded and extensible in Common Lisp, while Emacs use Emacs Lisp and Guix is built on Guile Scheme - both not CL conformant.

it's a very lispy stack, otherwise!

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Re:Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp? by abrax3141 on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:03PM (#17633688)
Ah. Yes. Right. But these aren’t Common Lisps. But you’ve indirectly brought up another useful point, to wit, the general Lisp paradigm is so useful that language designers regularly approximate it when building new platforms. (Clojure is another.)
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