| 1.1 | The Ten Most-Used Languages in Open-Source Projects | 16 |
| 3.1 | Index and Pointer Code for Accessing an Array a with Elements of Type T | 65 |
| 5.1 | Common POSIX, Win32, and Java Thread and Synchronization Primitives | 163 |
| 6.1 | Common Project Subdirectory Names | 183 |
| 6.2 | User Variables Commonly Defined in Makefiles | 193 |
| 6.3 | Variables Maintained by make | 194 |
| 6.4 | File Identification Tags Used in Revision Control Systems | 206 |
| 7.1 | Common File Names | 226 |
| 7.2 | Common File Extensions | 227 |
| 7.3 | Hungarian Notation Primitive Types, Type Constructions, and Name Qualifiers | 236 |
| 7.4 | Hungarian Notation for Common Visual Basic and Microsoft Access Types and Controls | 237 |
| 8.1 | Source Files Corresponding to sendmail Documentation Headings | 246 |
| 8.2 | Common troff Commands and Man and mdoc Line Macros | 262 |
| 8.3 | Common Texinfo Commands | 263 |
| 8.4 | The javadoc Tags | 263 |
| 8.5 | Unix Reference Manual Sections | 264 |
| 9.1 | NetBSD Kernel Directories and Corresponding Modules | 295 |
| 10.1 | Common Regular Expression Building Blocks | 341 |
| 10.2 | Regular Expression Search Commands in Popular Editors | 341 |
| A.1 | Contents of the Book's CD-ROM | 400 |