Stanford Lecture: The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 4 (July 28, 1982)

[INAUDIBLE] trying to be unconfusing to a novice user.

And "macro" is the word the manual uses when it lapses into computer science jargon.

But they're the same, really, in concept. And probably the new manual will just say that we call them

"control sequences" because they control TeX. And they're called "macros" because everybody programming a computer knows what a macro is.

And I don't know. Anyway, on the other hand, for web we also have macros.