[plt-scheme] call-by-value vs. call-by-name?

PLT is actually a triply-recursive acronym, where the "P" stands for "PLT", the "L" stands for the 
middle letter of "PLT" and the "T" stands for the last letter of "PLT".  There you have it.

Mike

Robby Findler wrote:
> Pretty Lame Tackronyms. Oh, wait.
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Jan 28, 2008 1:14 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle <stephen at degabrielle.name> wrote:
>> Power Line Telephony!
>>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2008 7:08 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>>> Good point.
>>>
>>> I've several times thrown group parties at my place where the idea is to
>>> build your own pizza.  PLT stands for "personal little tondo".
>>>
>>> Shriram
>>>
>>> On Jan 28, 2008 4:31 PM, Ray Racine <ray.racine at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Should such an opportunity as this go unmet?  Acronyms, like the macro,
>>>> _must_ be expanded, fulfilling their unbridled manifest destiny.  To do
>>>> less is an insult to all acronyms everywhere.  For the acronym, which
>>>> stands for nothing, does not stand for anything at all. Where is the
>>>> outrage!?!
>>>>
>>>> A steering committee must, simply must, be convened immediately.  They
>>>> shall in turn appoint editors, who shall not rest until  ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:56 -0500, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>>>>> PLT does not stand for anything.
>>>>>
>>>>> We're computer scientists: we don't need expansions for our abbreviations.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shriram
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>>
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