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Common Lisp is another example of a Lisp with 2 namespaces.


Common Lisp has more than two namespaces.


The point is that it has more than one.


The point is he wrote "two", not "more than one".


". . . with a namespace for functions that is different from the one for ordinary values", then!

I got into this trouble by wanting to avoid contributing to the perpetuation of the terms "Lisp-1" and "Lisp-2". I find those 2 terms regrettable because using a short name for a concept implies that the concept is important, but whether functions share the same namespace as values do is not IMO an important decision in the design of a programming language: changing the decision changes the character of the language in only a few superficial ways.


Yeah. Lisp 1s are more common though. Racket, Scheme, Clojure, ... Hell, Javascript is also a lisp 1.



Chill, man. I know I was stretching. It is undeniable that javascript took inspiration from lisp/scheme.




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