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Well, that's on the author for claiming it is a pun, personally I'm happy about the explanation that: - R^nRS is short for Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic
by contravariant 3y ago
Well, that's on the author for claiming it is a pun, personally I'm happy about the explanation that:
- R^nRS is short for Revised^n Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
- Algol60 was defined in a document called Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60
- Revised^n is mathematical notation for Revised Revised ... Revised n-times.
The prose is a bit iffy, but I'm just happy it managed to find the link between RnRS and Algol 60. It's something I didn't manage to find with just google.
- Jtsummers 3y agohttps://wiki.c2.com/?RevisedReportOnAlgorithmicLanguageScheme https://wiki.c2.com/?RevisedReportOnAlgorithmicLanguageSchem... > The title is surely a reference to the AlgolSixty report ("Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60") First page of Google results for "rnrs scheme meaning". No quotes, just those three terms. Also the Algol connection can be found in R3RS: > Dedicated to the Memory of ALGOL 60 -- https://standards.scheme.org/official/r3rs.pdf https://standards.scheme.org/official/r3rs.pdf