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10 July 2025

• diffhist Bit array 03:40 −187 Hddqsb talk contribs (Undid revision 1122206295 by Dotancohen. "Bitmask" is different because it generally fits in a single machine word. Instead, mention it in "See also".)

9 July 2025

• diffhist IBM System/360 21:09 +12 Gah4 talk contribs (→Architectural overview: supervisor state)
• diffhist C++ 20:12 −1 ElegantEgotist talk contribs
• diffhist C (programming language) 20:00 −20 Kbrose talk contribs (Undid revision 1299675934 by Chris.temp.level.0 (talk) unnecessary. the mode of instantiating an executable program can be addressed elsewhere.) Tag: Undo
• diffhist C (programming language) 19:25 +20 Chris.temp.level.0 talk contribs (The sentence "C is primarily a compiled, general-purpose programming language" accurately reflects how C is most commonly used and understood. While there are rare cases of interpreters or just-in-time (JIT) compilers for C, these are exceptions rather than the norm. Including "compiled" improves clarity for readers by specifying the typical method of execution without excluding those uncommon implementations. This edit aligns with standard technical descriptions.) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
• diffhist Programming language 13:06 −2 Stevebroshar talk contribs (better word)
• diffhist Programming language 13:04 −408 Stevebroshar talk contribs (Element is overly generic; I see language definition and features; and this allows removing the jarring stuff from the into)
• diffhist Programming language 12:50 −21 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→Semantics: get to the point)
• diffhist Programming language 12:42 −579 Stevebroshar talk contribs (This whole paragraph is uncited and low-value; in particular: exception handling is covered later; prog lang theory is better handled as see-also (which it already is))
• diffhist Programming language 12:37 −40 Stevebroshar talk contribs (It's not just simplicity; it's about quality! Better software)
• diffhist Programming language 12:33 −277 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→Classifications: if scripting is a category then it should be another item; regardless it should be a side-note of imperative)
• diffhist Programming language 12:27 +48 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→Classifications: Edit for better organization; stuff and the end was not well integrated)
• diffhist Programming language 12:13 −582 Stevebroshar talk contribs (This section is not so much about the definition of prog lang as it is how that term relates to other terms: natural language, computer language and formal specification langauge) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• diffhist Programming language 11:54 +400 Stevebroshar talk contribs (It's about _source code_ regardless of whether it's for a program; a compiler/interpreter is not an _implementation_ of a language yet some automated process (i.e. compiler/interpreter) is required to use source code) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist Free software 11:46 −6 EditorPerson53 talk contribs (Fixing phrasing.) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• diffhist Free software 11:42 +41 EditorPerson53 talk contribs (Amended image caption to more correctly reflect the actual evidence prprovided by its citations.) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• diffhist Programming language 11:31 +22 Stevebroshar talk contribs (it _can_ be described in many (other) ways than syntax and semantics ... a formal lang is another way to describe it or even define it.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist Floating-point arithmetic 11:30 −146 Vincent Lefèvre talk contribs (→Incidents: The intent is that there is a single time unit: 0.1s. The issue is that the software assumed that its accuracy did not matter; Skeel says: "this time difference should be in error by only 0.0001%, a truly insignificant amount". Something that may remain true... until a cancellation occurs like here.)
• diffhist Programming language 11:28 +1 Stevebroshar talk contribs (it's for controlling a _computer_; not any ol' machine (yes sometimes we call a computer a machine but that's inaccurate))
• diffhist Programming language 11:27 −18 Stevebroshar talk contribs ('instructions' is overly specific (implies command/imperative); it's about control (however that's conveyed))
• diffhist Programming language 11:25 +28 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→Definitions: Reword for accuracy; it's not for communicating with _all_ machines; only computers ... although there are other differences (i.e. syntax) intension is a big difference; prog lang is for _controlling_)
• diffhist Programming language 11:20 +46 Stevebroshar talk contribs (Singular is better than plural)
• diffhist RISC-V 09:00 +27 2001:9e8:5b:6800:67e2:78b:d344:201f talk (→Significant for-market developments: Domicile.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist RISC-V 08:59 +502 2001:9e8:5b:6800:67e2:78b:d344:201f talk (→Existing: It does not seem to be an "offshoot", but an independent company.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist RISC-V 08:56 +143 2001:9e8:5b:6800:67e2:78b:d344:201f talk (→End-user hardware: Added citation.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist RISC-V 08:44 +2 2001:9e8:5b:6800:67e2:78b:d344:201f talk (Typo.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist RISC-V 08:43 −15 2001:9e8:5b:6800:67e2:78b:d344:201f talk (No need for "are developing" or "has become" any more.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist RISC-V 08:34 +23 2001:9e8:5b:6800:67e2:78b:d344:201f talk (→Significant for-market developments: Style.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist Floating-point arithmetic 01:12 +957 Taylor Riastradh Campbell talk contribs (→Incidents: Clarify what happened with the Patriot missile battery, which was, despite popular wisdom, not caused by using floating-point, but rather by using two different unit conversions that disagreed, with a discrepancy that increased with uptime.)

8 July 2025

• diffhist Bit 22:24 −30 2.196.217.134 talk (removed an example (not indicated in the linked article considering redirect))
• diffhist Single-precision floating-point format 22:19 +17 Vincent Lefèvre talk contribs (Correction for Fortran: see the source! Without the explicit kind 4 (for single precision), this depends on compiler options.)
• diffhist Single-precision floating-point format 22:02 +38 Vincent Lefèvre talk contribs (correction for C: float is guaranteed to be single precision in C only with IEEE 754 support (otherwise it may be larger).)
• diffhist GitHub 18:11 0 80.109.108.129 talk (It started in 2007, just see the links. The change from 28 February 2025 07:09 introduced the wrong year.)
• diffhist X86 16:40 −2 RastaKins talk contribs (→Addressing modes: Parenthesis not needed around [BXBP] + [SIDI] as addition is fully associative)
• diffhist Single-precision floating-point format 11:17 −288 Vincent Lefèvre talk contribs (Undid revision 1299082284 by Chatul (talk) - contradicted by https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=definitions-pli-data-type) Tag: Undo
• diffhist Wayback Machine 10:15 −45 88.201.28.58 talk (It used to be blocked long ago but not anymore)
• diffhist m NaN 07:09 0 Cedar101 talk contribs (→Integer NaN: {{java}} {{perl2}})

7 July 2025

• diffhist Type theory 22:43 −33 Thcans talk contribs (→Applications: More than enough content already available!) Tags: Visual edit Newcomer task Newcomer task: expand
• diffhist Class (computer programming) 16:07 +372 DryF0x talk contribs (Added clarification to distinguish final vs. sealed in Java) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• diffhist Z/Architecture 14:52 +276 Chatul talk contribs (→Address encoding: Long displacement)
• diffhist Z/Architecture 13:14 +214 Chatul talk contribs (→Registers: link FP)

6 July 2025

• diffhist Fixed-point arithmetic 19:55 −5 InfoManiac297 talk contribs (ce) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• diffhist m GitHub 18:20 −41 Unburnable talk contribs (fix(template): remove irrelevant link in URL template section that led to a random non-English website (probably not safe to click))
• diffhist GitHub 14:22 +111 69.127.20.194 talk (corrected users with ref)
• diffhist Character (computing) 14:02 −15 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→char: Edit for brevity; simplicity)
• diffhist Character (computing) 13:57 −140 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→char: Clarify)
• diffhist m Character (computing) 13:52 0 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→Character)
• diffhist Character (computing) 13:51 −108 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→char: clarify what is c language terms)
• diffhist Character (computing) 13:39 −230 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→Terminology: Organize more uniformly)
• diffhist Character (computing) 13:30 −30 Stevebroshar talk contribs (→Terminology: We don't quote the dictionary here; we paraphrase and cite)