Software for Your Head

Appendix A. The Core Lexicon

One of the great simplifications available to collaborators is to establish for themselves the exact meaning of terms they deem important to their collaboration; and one of the great opportunities afforded systems developers is their unabridged right to name and define the symbols (that is, the variables and macros) that they use in the systems they write. Taking the opportunity provided by the latter in hopes of more often achieving the former, the terms important to the adoption of The Core are defined in this, “The Core Lexicon.”

In cases where we felt that additional discussion of a term as defined would be useful, we added it beneath the term's definition. The use of italics separates such commentary from the ...