I’ll remove even more and _still_ call it a lisp and there is nothing you can do to stop me.

Any memory management solution will run out of space and terminate unless there is literally infinite memory available.

But I guess hash tables is what people think about when thinking about what makes something a lisp or not.

Whereas in contrast, you cannot have a race this kind of race for the bottom with most other languages; tripping over the other contestants to see who can remove the most features, yet still have Python or Java.

See?

There you go, mrweasel; I think we hit the nail on the head.