From 1193d43e89326feb150d7f7c0e8d03428115c80b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Kahl Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:58:34 +0200 Subject: Rectified relationship to Lisp LISP refers to the historic programming language LISt Processing, whereas Lisp is the correct (modern) name of the programming language family. The change reflects this. Also see Wikipedia. --- clojure.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/clojure.html.markdown b/clojure.html.markdown index 12611fd3..cb202a92 100644 --- a/clojure.html.markdown +++ b/clojure.html.markdown @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author_url: http://adambard.com/ filename: test.clj --- -Clojure is a variant of LISP developed for the Java Virtual Machine. It has +Clojure is a Lisp family language developed for the Java Virtual Machine. It has a much stronger emphasis on pure [functional programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming) than Common Lisp, but includes several [STM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory) utilities to handle state as it comes up. -- cgit v1.2.3