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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Chris Chittleborough (talk | contribs) at 11:32, 28 June 2007 (Fix my previous message, sign (and sigh!) again). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

All well and good but... What does "PLT" stand for? The disambiguation page's options hint that it might be "Programming Language Theory", but I don't see this actually stated anywhere.

That's an interesting question. I think it started out as a project of the Rice University Programming Languages Team ([1]), but then moved over to its current set of maintainers. But the "who" section of the PLT Scheme website ([2]) does not mention Rice at all. My guess is that that is merely because the Rice PLT is no longer in any way associated with the project, but I'm not at all sure, and I don't know quite how to articulate that in the article. Golwengaud 22:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I once asked the PLT guys about that via email. Matthew Flatt's reply said:
It used to be an acronym, but we shifted our emphasis, so now it's just a name that's spelled with three capital letters.
He declined to say what PLT might have been an acronym for; some kind of in-joke?
Prof Flatt also said that people who produce PLT Scheme are happy to be called the "PLT group". Cheers, CWC 11:32, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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