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Those are no "ties to ASM" in the sense "easy to embed ASM in this language".

Those are merely implementation details of early Lisp leaking to the language naming.

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If that were true it would have been awfully difficult to write operating systems in Lisp, yet OSes were written in Lisp (and the companies that famously did so played a part in the founding of the Free Software Foundation).

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