On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Lynn Winebarger wrote:

>    It's interesting to contrast this with mathematics, where not only
> case is used to distinguish between variables, but font as well.
>
> ...
>
>    Admittedly, we're discussing a programming language, but you did
> bring up mathematics earlier....

I have on various occasions found case sensitivity very useful when translating 
Mathematics, formal CS, or Physics to Scheme code.  "for vector v in space V", 
"input variable x to the standard quantum gate X", and so on.

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