[plt-scheme] What does the Scheme file extension ".ss" stand for?

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 18 06:48:39 EST 2008

Alternatively, one can appropriate the name and change its meaning
(much like the Nazis did with the swastika).  Sounds a good
alternative to me.

N.

On Feb 18, 2008 11:40 AM, Jos Koot <jos.koot at telefonica.net> wrote:
> For reasons like that I dislike the double s too.
> Jos
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoffrey S. Knauth" <geoff at knauth.org>
> To: "pltscheme" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] What does the Scheme file extension ".ss" stand
> for?
>
>
> > On Feb 18, 2008, at 00:10, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >> On Feb 17, Grant Rettke wrote:
> >>> Obscure is fun, please explain [preference for .scm over .ss].
> >>
> >> (I come from a country where ss doesn't stand for "social
> >> security"...  See the next thing when you google it.)
> >
> > I prefer .scm too.  My father was a NYTimes reporter in Germany  1938-41.
> > He had plenty of run-ins with the SS and Gestapo.
> >
> > Grant:  I'm glad you asked the question.  I always wondered the same
> > thing.


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