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Date:Mon Jul 7 16:49:45 1994 
Subject:Re: Why I hate C, Like Dylan 
From:johnw (John Williams) 
Volume-ID:940708.03 

>Well here I prime up my flame-gun. The great problem with LISP is that,
>having been conceived in a reasonable effort at mathematical rigour, it has
>been led down various garden paths by generations of hackers. Now
>lack of case-sensitivity may be merely a matter of style [...]

For the record, the draft ANSI Common Lisp standard *does* include case
sensitive lexical analysis (c.f. READTABLE-CASE).

John.