Brian Harvey wrote:
>
> Umm, excuse me, but some of us are not "PLT nerds." One or two of
> us would even go so far as to describe ourselves as PLT haters.
> (I want LOAD to work properly in my Scheme.)
winooski:~ eli> mz
Welcome to MzScheme v4.2.1 [3m], Copyright (c) 2004-2009 PLT Scheme Inc.
> (load "defx.scm")
> x
123
> I am thinking dark thoughts about this offhand remark and the R6RS
> process.
Right... and those people sitting in a parked car outside your house
must be secrent PLT agents.
Jon Wilson wrote:
>
> It is possible, and I really really really hope true, that Alaric
> meant Programming Language Theory, and not PLT scheme. This usage
> is not uncommon on, say, LtU. I once brought up this unfortunate
> naming coincidence to a PLT scheme dev, however, and was surprised
> by the ensuing denial of any usage of PLT to mean Programming
> Language Theory.
Assuming you're talking about me, there is no such denial of these
uses of "PLT" for "... Theory" on LtU. What I said is that
personally, I don't know of any PL literature that used the "PLT"
acronym in pre-LtU times. For example, I'd expect some "Journal of
Programming Language Theory", or "Special Interest Group on
Programming Language Theory" or some textbook with such a title. (The
wikipedia entry is unsurprisingly biased, btw.)
--
((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:
http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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