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And whoever wrote it out took the time to follow syntax. Although I think this is actually Scheme? Defining a function in Lisp is slightly different if I recall.



Also, Lisp dialects tend to use 'nil' for false and 't' for true. Schemes usually use #f and #t

There's the convention of using "?" for predicates. Lisp usually would use 'p'. As in 'stress?' vs 'stress-p'

So yeah, most likely a form of Scheme. Which can be considered as a 'Lisp' dialect, so not exactly wrong either.


> Although I think this is actually Scheme? Defining a function in Lisp is slightly different if I recall.

Scheme is a Lisp, though it is not Common Lisp.


At least in the variants of lisp I've used, defining a function would be done using defun, not define, so yeah, probably.




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