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11 March 2023

9 March 2023

  • 19:4419:44, 9 March 2023 diff hist +2,399 N Literate programmingCreated page with "Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced in {{wp|Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984}} by the Great Don Knuth in which a computer program is given as an explanation of how it works in a natural language, such as English, interspersed (embedded) with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable source code can be generated.<ref>http://www.literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf</ref> The literate programming paradigm, as conceived by Knuth, r..." current

8 March 2023

7 March 2023

5 March 2023

  • 18:5018:50, 5 March 2023 diff hist +661 N Octet, not byteCreated page with "In general, we try to avoid using the term byte, because it is sometimes ambiguous, much like the term 'word' is. It is burden enough that the size of a word is machine-dependent, and since the size of a byte is too, let us dispense with it in favour of a term that is not: '''octet'''. Bytes are ''almost'' always 8 bits. Octets are ''always'' 8 bits. Sometimes hardware literature will take the liberty of using the term ''byte'' in their own given context. Let us not wr..."
  • 18:4818:48, 5 March 2023 diff hist 0 N Category:Rules of lifeCreated blank page current

4 March 2023

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