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Gareth McCaughan Gareth.McCaughan at pobox.com
Sun Dec 15 06:27:31 EST 2002


Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>          Thought it was Obi-Wan... Besides, one first encounters him (in 
>  presentation order, not internal timeline) as "Ben" Kenobi; "Obi-Wan" 
>  always sounded like a title to me, I still refer to him as "Ben Kenobi" 
>  (and, at the risk of starting a war, it was still LISP in the early 80s 
>  when I played around with it; just as it was FORTRAN for all versions 
>  prior to the Fortran 90 standardization, wherein it was decreed that it 
>  was a "name" for F90+ and in general, but still FORTRAN for specific 
>  pre-90 versions -- has some standard made similar decree for LISP?).

The books "Common Lisp: the Language" and the ANSI standard for
Common Lisp both spell the word with only one capital letter.

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