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[JOSH at MIT-MC (J Storrs Hall)]

I'd like to find out what the "best" READ algorithm in lisp is.
our (rutgers) lisp has a very fast read but it loses for long
lists... the length of a list goes on the stack so it blows up
in those cases.  I asked our resident LISP hacker (before he left)
why and he thought that destructive additions to the structure
(or reversing it afterwards) was messy.  Are there any reasons
that either of these methods aren't as straightforward as they
seem to me?		
--JoSH