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Authored by: stegu on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 09:28 AM EDT |
One problem is that "society", as in "most people", are
badly misinformed about what software really is, and the definition used by
experts in the field is ignored in favor of naive and superficial definitions
that don't work. And by "experts", I mean people who can actually
write software, and who are capable of understanding how software works.
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Authored by: Wol on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 07:14 PM EDT |
That Wikipedia or Merriam-Webster actually know what they're talking about.
I would agree that IN COMMON PARLANCE software has to be machine readable. But
software can exist as hand-written coding sheets, and there's no guarantee that
an OCR program will be able to make sense of it ...
There's a big difference between a *popular* definition, and an *accurate*
definition.
Cheers,
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