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"Software is an expression of an abstract concept"
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 05:06 PM EST

Actually - I'd say both of us are right depending on your point of view.

If your point of view is the particular pattern to the flow of electricity - then it is abstract as that is a particular interpretation of said flow. If it is of the understanding of "what was documented", then again it's the abstract as we are speaking of the Language.

However - you can also author out said abstract concept in the form of an expression:

    If software = physical
    Then
      patent
    Else
      fail
In which case it does embody the expression of the abstract.

This is no different then any other language. The concept of language and communication is abstract. When one authors a treatise on language and communication then one embodies the understanding of the abstract within the expression of the abstract.

The physical - of course - being nothing more then ink on paper. The meaning being in how we understand the particular scratches of ink.

:)

RAS

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