I was not a member of the original group which labored for two years
in the design and initial implementation of Muddle; that group was
-composed principally of Gerald Sussman, Carl Hewit, Chris Reeve, Dave
+composed principally of Gerald Sussman, Carl Hewitt, Chris Reeve, Dave
Cressey, and later Bruce Daniels. I would therefore like to take this
opportunity to thank my Muddle mentors, chiefly Chris Reeve and Bruce
Daniels, for remaining civil through several months of verbal
`ROOT`. A metasyntactic variable -- something to be replaced in actual
use by something else -- appears as *radix:fix*, in an italic font;
often the variable will have both a meaning and a data type (as here),
-but sometimes one of those will be ommitted, for obvious reasons.
+but sometimes one of those will be omitted, for obvious reasons.
An ellipsis (...) indicates that something uninteresting has been
omitted. The character `^` means that the following character is to be