Just because there are other sources of misconceptions about Lisp doesn't justify Clojure being one. Clojure could help by emphasizing that it's a Lisp-like language, which is different from other Lisps. On the clojure.org home page, there is this paragraph:

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. [...]

It would be helpful if this said something like:

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp. Though sharing with other dialects the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system, it is very different from the original LISP of John MacCarthy, and the subsequent mainstream languages like Common Lisp and Scheme that are in contemporary use. Unlike these, Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. [...]

Helpful to who? A home page is for conveying essential information. This paragraph is something you wrote to satisfy something pedantic that most people don't agree with.

Obviously the author considers Clojure a lisp and I dare say Rich Hickey knows what he's talking about.

I brought up the functional point because it's ridiculous to say Clojure is confusing people into thinking all lisps are functional. There's no reason to think that

> This paragraph is something you wrote

Yes?

> something pedantic most people don't agree with

How so?

> Obviously the author considers Clojure a Lisp

The revised paragraph still insists that Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, like before.

> ridiculous to say Clojure is confusing people into thinking all lisps are functional

I've witnessed it first hand a number of times now, from people whose only exposure to the Lisp world is Clojure.

You're saying Clojure is a lisp here, but every other comment of yours says the opposite. That's what I'm responding to.

>> This paragraph is something you wrote

> Yes?

I don't know why you're chopping my sentences in half to have fake points to respond to. I was saying the paragraph was written by you and for you. It is not helpful for beginners trying to get into a language to read random names and other languages thrown at them, and be told "It's like this other language you don't know about, but not quite." That's how you get people clicking away from your site.

It's just a weird hill to die on to say there's a problem with calling Clojure a LISP because it will "confuse" people. It doesn't confuse people that know what LISP is. Beginners are always going to be confused, that's par for the course.