Is not the same, in lisp :count 5 means that you remove at most 5 elements, so that the  result can be a list of 100 elements, while take 5 will always produce a sequence with at most 5 elements.<p>(remove-if-not #&#x27;evenp (loop for i below 10 collect i)  :count 3 :start 0) result is (0 2 4 6 7 8 9), there are three elements deleted.