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• 00:40, 21 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Backus-Naur-Nicholi form (Redirected page to Backus–Naur–Nicholi normal form) Tag: New redirect
• 00:40, 21 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Backus-Naur-Nicholi normal form (Redirected page to Backus–Naur–Nicholi normal form) Tag: New redirect
• 00:39, 21 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Backus–Naur–Nicholi normal form (Created page with "This page specifies a metasyntax notation for context-free grammars called Backus–Naur–Nicholi normal form, or simply BN3F. It is an "extended" Backus–Naur form authored by Alexander Nicholi to address several shortcomings of both the original BNF and other extended BNFs such as {{a|6PctX#sec-notation|the version authored by the W3C for XML}}. The main concerns include, in no particular order: * Concretisation of the binary form underlying the grammar * Succinct an...")
• 23:57, 20 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Template:A (Created page with "<tt><onlyinclude>[[a:{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]</onlyinclude></tt> Category:Inline templatesCategory:Link templates")
• 23:56, 20 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs added prefix "a" (https://archive.ph/$1) (trans: 0; local: 0) to the interwiki table
• 23:55, 20 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs modified prefix "github" (https://github.com/$1) (trans: 0; local: 0) in the interwiki table (no forwarding (not local))
• 16:19, 16 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Pel, not pixel (Created page with "We avoid using the term ''pixel'' to refer to screen dots in software, instead endeavouring to use an older and shorter synonym: '''pel'''. If you have experience with computers of the 1980s and early 1990s, you have probably encountered this term before. We only use the word ''pixel'' to refer to ''physical hardware pixels''. Since we also hold that physical hardware pixels should ''never'' be referred to in software (see OAM), you will almost always see the term '...")
• 08:25, 14 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Spinel (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:Spinel}}{{stub}}{{infobox plang |name=Spinel |image=Spinel.svg |caption=The Spinel emblem. |paradigm={{wp|Functional programming|functional}}, {{wp|Imperative programming|imperative}}, {{wp|Object-oriented programming|object-oriented}} |designer=Alexander Nicholi |appeared=March, 2023 |typing={{wp|Dynamic typing|dynamic}}, {{wp|Strong and weak typing|strong}}, {{wp|Duck typing|duck}} |ext=<code>.sp</code> |influencedby={{wp|Ruby (program...")
• 08:24, 14 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Category:Pages with broken file links (Created blank page)
• 08:24, 14 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page File:Spinel.svg
• 08:24, 14 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs uploaded File:Spinel.svg
• 00:13, 14 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Maintenance-free programming (Created page with "{{stub}} '''Maintenance-free programming''' is a programming paradigm that eschews abstractions in pursuit of authoring well-behaved code that does not require continuous intervention from engineers to continue functioning. It is the opposite of several venture-backed software product development strategies and tools, such as the agile methodology and continuous integration. It is a broad rejection of the Silicon Valley mantra of "move fast and break things". Maintenanc...")
• 23:01, 11 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Sirius DOS (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The {{PAGENAME}} emblem. '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a research software platform devised by American computer scientist Alexander Nicholi based on MS-DOS 6.22 and running on IBM-PC compatibles. Specifically, it is composed of five concrete platforms: Sirius A, Sirius B, Sirius A′, Sirius B′, and Sirius V. ==Platforms== thumb|The 16-colour, 32×32 pixel icon for {{PAGENAME}}. ==...")
• 22:53, 11 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page File:Siriusdos icon.png
• 22:53, 11 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs uploaded File:Siriusdos icon.png
• 22:21, 11 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page File:Siriusdos.svg
• 22:21, 11 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs uploaded File:Siriusdos.svg
• 21:56, 11 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Category:Anodyne components (Created page with "{{mainarticle|Anodyne}}")
• 21:56, 11 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Category:Sirius DOS components (Created page with "{{mainarticle|Sirius DOS}}")
• 19:44, 9 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Literate programming (Created 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...")
• 02:16, 8 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Template:Ns2ext (Created page with "<noinclude><span style="display:none"></noinclude><onlyinclude>{{#switch:{{ns2idx|{{{1|}}}}}|#default=222|1=223|2=224|3=225|4=226|5=227|6=228|7=229|8=22A|9=22B|10=22C|11=22D|12=22E|13=22F|14=22G|15=22H}}</onlyinclude><noinclude></span> This template takes a string parameter <code><nowiki>{{{1}}}</nowiki></code> that contains the human-readable form of a built-in namespace, and provides a Precursor-friendly thornal file extension derived from its ID number. It le...")
• 02:08, 8 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Template:Ns2idx (Created page with "<noinclude><span style="display:none"></noinclude><onlyinclude>{{#switch:{{{1|}}}|media=-2|Media=-2|special=-1|Special=-1|-=0|#default=0|talk=1|Talk=1|user=2|User=2|user talk=3|User talk=3|user_talk=3|User_talk=3|project=4|Project=4|{{SITENAME}}=4|project talk=5|Project talk=5|project_talk=5|Project_talk=5|file=6|File=6|file talk=7|File talk=7|file_talk=7|File_talk=7|mediawiki=8|Mediawiki=8|MediaWiki=8|mediawiki talk=9|Mediawiki talk=9|MediaWiki talk=9|mediawiki_talk=9|M...")
• 02:07, 8 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Category:Functional templates (Created blank page)
• 00:13, 8 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Template:L (Created page with "<tt><onlyinclude>{{#if:{{{3|}}} |[[{{{3}}}:{{{1}}}{{!}}{{{2}}}]]^{[[{{{3}}}:{{{1}}}{{!}}{{{1}}}]]}|[[{{{1}}}{{!}}{{{2}}}]]^[[{{{1}}}]]}}</onlyinclude></tt> Category:Inline templatesCategory:Link templates")
• 19:04, 7 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Superwiki (Created page with "'''Superwiki''' is a software project concept for leveraging the MediaWiki user experience structure to host and disseminate more than just wiki content in a single permissions model. ==Overview== Concept stage: * Define areas of MediaWiki that constitute a stable API ** Subdivide this into user areas (e.g. article names, magic words) and software areas (concept of namespaces, document model) * Expand the page content model idea to incorporate source code Outlining exe...")
• 18:26, 7 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Template:Circa (Created page with "{{#if:{{{sortable|}}} |<span style="display:none; speak:none;">{{padleft:{{{1|}}}|4|0}} </span> }}{{#switch:{{{lk|}}} |no|off = <span title="circa">c.</span> |yes|on = c. |abbr |#default = <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> }}{{#if:{{{1|}}} |<span style="white-space:nowrap;"> {{{1}}}</span> }}{{#if:{{{2|}}} | – c.<span style="white-space:nowrap;"> {{{2}}}</span> }} <noinclude>Category:Inline templates</noinclude>")
• 18:50, 5 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Octet, not byte (Created 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...")
• 18:48, 5 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Category:Rules of life (Created blank page)
• 21:33, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs added prefix "github" (https://github.com/$1) (trans: 0; local: 1) to the interwiki table
• 17:49, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Sirius C* (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The emblem for Sirius C*. '''Sirius C*''' is an experimental compiler created to prove the feature conjectures of the C* programming language. It leverages Oración as its assembler backend and is a derivative of the Feeble C compiler. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:46, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Simbel (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The emblem for the Simbel software. '''Simbel''' is a document generation tool that consumes several categories of input information to create an abstract document tree that can then be rendered logically into various publication mediums including XHTML, HTML5, and PDF (and therefore including print). Category:Byblos components")
• 17:44, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page File:Simbel.svg
• 17:44, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs uploaded File:Simbel.svg
• 17:44, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Rebound (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The Rebound emblem. '''Rebound''' is a software distribution tool designed for Unix-based servers that agnostically accretes software packages and distributes them efficiently to users over the Worldwide Web. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:42, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Quindle (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The emblem for Quindle. '''Quindle''' is a tab-oriented graphical text editor program designed for DOS and future PC platforms. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:40, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Pegasus (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The Pegasus emblem. '''Pegasus''' is a Lynx-inspired graphical web browser that aims to display webpages without the use of JavaScript while also handling graphical elements such as images.")
• 17:38, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Pegasus.svg (better colour)
• 17:37, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Outbound (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The Outbound emblem. '''Outbound''' is an agnostic software packing system that is designed to take build artefacts and create packages for various platforms. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:35, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Oracion (Redirected page to Oración) Tag: New redirect
• 17:35, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Oración (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The Oración emblem. '''Oración''' is an assembler program that originally targets the i286 and ARMv4T instruction sets. It leverages Gordian to perform symbol resolution and its language is the target for higher level language compilers, including both FCC and Sirius C*. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:34, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page FCC (Redirected page to Feeble C compiler) Tag: New redirect
• 17:32, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Inbound (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The Inbound emblem. '''Inbound''' is a software build system built on top of the <tt>make</tt> language that descends from the Slick makefiles, a proof-of-concept that succeeded in showing meta-build systems such as CMake were unnecessary in building software while targeting many platforms. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:30, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Gordian (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The Gordian emblem. '''Gordian''' is a ''desymboliser'' program for assembly code and a key component of the Oración assembler. Abstractly, it performs the same function that would ordinarily be performed by a linker, namely resolving the constant values of symbols in assembly code. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:28, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Gauntlet (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The emblem for Gauntlet. '''Gauntlet''' is a public-key cryptography suite designed to provide OpenPGP facilities for the Byblos SDK, similarly to the GNU project's {{wp|GnuPG}} software. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:26, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Forerunner (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|Forerunner's emblem. '''Forerunner''' is a source code management tool built on top of Precursor. It is similar in utility to the features provided by services such as GitHub, GitLab and <tt>cgit</tt>, but leverages the version control software directly as its database engine. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:24, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page File:Forerunner.svg
• 17:24, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs uploaded File:Forerunner.svg
• 17:24, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Feeble C compiler (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The emblem for FCC. The '''Feeble C compiler''', abbreviated as '''FCC''', is a deliberately non-optimising ANSI C compiler that uses the Oración assembler as its backend. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:22, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Earthbound (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The Earthbound emblem.'''Earthbound''' is a network and system agnostic software procurement system, designed to obtain and consume software packages in various formats and manage them in concert together at once. Category:Byblos components")
• 17:20, 4 March 2023 Alexander talk contribs created page Codex (Created page with "{{stub}}thumb|right|The Codex emblem. The '''Codex''' is a content addressing system designed to replace file trees as an abstract medium of data organisation. It uses segmented addressing of octets instead of paths to achieve this, and is a work-in-progress concept still being developed. Category:Applications of mechanicalism")