Software programs could function as semilattices rather than hierarchical trees.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Truly successful programs can only be generated; and the way forward in the next decades will be through programs which are generated through unfolding, in some fashion comparable to what I have described for buildings.hypothesis0.782
  Predicts that the only path to highly adapted software is to apply the principles of generated structure.
• Viewing the system as a collection of applications is a valid and useful approach.claim0.767
  Foundational assumption for the pattern language.
• An explicit focus on runtime architecture leads to a more dynamic and changeable system.claim0.764
  Core design philosophy of the paper.
• When a problem has a simple solution, a useful system will give programmers access to the simple solution; Parlog forces complex solutions to simple problems.claim0.760
  Critique that Parlog's abstraction level is too high and restrictive.
• These relationships are cognitive architectures regardless of the substrate in which they are implemented.claim0.757
  Asserts that organismic identity is fundamentally a cognitive structure.
• "The runtime architecture of a system" crystallizes the notion that temporal relationships matter more than static code structure.concept0.757
• Software implementations for all of the models/behaviours presented are common for n = 2, and can be made very efficient for α_i that map many objects onto a much smaller set of object families.claim0.755
  Claim about current practical feasibility and efficiency of 2-way associative implementations.
• Elephant programs that interact non-trivially with the outside world can have both input-output specifications, relating the programs inputs and outputs, and accomplishment specifications concerning what the program accomplishes in the world. These concepts are respectively generalizations of the philosophers' illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts.claim0.755
  Fifth abstract claim.