Lisp Dialects

Lisp Dialects are programming languages that branch from the original Lisp family design while diverging enough in syntax, semantics or standardization to count as their own dialect rather than a mere implementation of one shared standard. Wikipedia's own account of Lisp states that the language has changed since its early days and many dialects have existed over its history, naming Common Lisp, Scheme, Racket and Clojure as the best-known general-purpose Lisp dialects today, and separately naming Emacs Lisp alongside Clojure as a case where a software project defines a Lisp without a shared standard, so the dialect and its one implementation are the same thing. Each member placed under this group carries its own separate citation for the specific fact that puts it in this family.