Yes, it's true that a better method of explaining Jensen's device is by comparing it to call-by-reference. Specifically, that call-by-reference is now part of standard C and call-by-name isn't. Not directly anyhow.
From
<http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/courses/CS251/resources/real_programmers.html>
"Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of PASCAL, gave a talk once at which he was asked "How do you pronounce your name?". He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'.""
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