In a number of ways. "Common" is not that common of an adjective for software projects, compared to "new". Common Lisp is actually derived from dialects that trace their lineage to Lisp (the Lisp, unqualified) standardizing what is common among them. And the full name is actually "ANSI Common Lisp"; "Common Lisp" and "CL" are just nicknames.
Common Lisp people insisting on "Lisp" denoting "Common Lisp" are simply wrong, and that's that.
> Common Lisp people insisting on "Lisp" denoting "Common Lisp" are simply wrong, and that's that.
I don't think that's really true. After all, 'Common Lisp is actually derived from dialects that trace their lineage to Lisp (the Lisp, unqualified) standardizing what is common among them,' to quote someone. The intent of the Common Lisp standardisation effort was to standardise a common Lisp that programmers could rely on.
a Common Lisp. Anybody want to tell the Schemers that they're not Lisp (even though Scheme diverged from MacLisp, much the same as common lisp did), because you said so, for no real reason?
Common Lisp people insisting on "Lisp" denoting "Common Lisp" are simply wrong, and that's that.