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• out-of-band: [from telecommunications and network theory] adj.
  1. In software, describes values of a function which are not in its `natural' range of return values, but are rather signals that some kind of exception has occurred....
• ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ======================== CAR and CDR now return extra values.
  The function CAR now returns two values. Since it has to go to the trouble to figure out if the object is carcdr-able anyway, we figured you might as well get both halves at once....
• green bytes: n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
  as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record....
• green bytes n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
  as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record....
• handle: n. 1. [from CB slang] An electronic pseudonym
  a `nom de guerre' intended to conceal the user's true identity....
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• handle n. 1. [from CB slang] An electronic pseudonym
  a `nom de guerre' intended to conceal the user's true identity....
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• fence n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished (out-of-band) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....