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Re:The Roots of Lisp (2001) by lispm on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:31PM (#22066739)
In Lisp usually all non-nil values mean true.

  CL-USER 13 > (let ((a 1) (b 2))
                 (cond ((> a b) 'foo)
                       (:hello :there)))
  :THERE
In some early Lisp dialects not all objects (other than lists and symbols) would be self-evaluating, so one would have to quote them.
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