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For what it's worth, it helped me a great deal in understanding.

Yeah. If the new term conveys the actual meaning better than the old term, then why not invent a new term when dealing with the new people? We didn't always fully understand what X was when we coined X as the term for it; sometimes better names are possible. Why not start to use them?

Or, probably more often, a new term for the same old thing is not better, serves no useful purpose, and just confuses.

Because The lisp community has been doing this for 50 years and has a different name for it.

While true, they have been doing it in their own silo while being smug toward everybody else.

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