The original question was why people don’t consider Clojure a lisp. By your yardstick, it is clearly a lisp.
As far as I can tell the only argument against it being is that it does not specifically use cons cells.
As far as I can tell the only argument against it being is that it does not specifically use cons cells.
I wanted to describe the source-code peculiarity because it hadn't been discussed elsewhere in the comments and I think it's important in what you might call old-fashioned Lispiness. I should have chosen another place for my comment. Sorry about that.