Authored by: PJ on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 12:35 AM EDT |
Hahahahahaha
I love this cray cray thread. It reminds me of
when I wrote that there's no Santa Claus, the
pinnacle of folks finding fault over nits.
Guys, software is contrasted with hardware, just
as you say, BECAUSE SOFTWARE IS NOT HARDWARE.
A computer is hardware.
Was that hard?
I think not.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 12:39 AM EDT |
I think then by your thinking your software engineering book had no software
written in it did it. It just had a whole lot of funny example text in it that
you never quite worked out what it was trying to say. Lucky for you it came
with a CD in the back and you put that in your computer and then you just threw
the book in a pile.
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Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 10:13 AM EDT |
"Software by definition require a computer to run."
I was writing and running BASIC programs long before I owned a computer.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 04:22 PM EDT |
"associated with a system and especially a
computer system" does neither mean that software is an integral and
essential part of a computer system (early analogue computers had no software to
speak of), or that it should exclusively be associated with a computer system.
As a matter of fact you can have software elaborated by any machine capable of
executing a sequence of steps. Like the holes in a punch card for a programmable
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Authored by: Wol on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 07:05 PM EDT |
You mean the ORIGINAL meaning of the word, I'd agree with you. Some-ONE or
-thing that computes.
In other words, a computer needn't be a machine. One only needs to read the
description by Feynman of the computer that calculated a lot of the stuff for
the Manhattan Project. It's a good read, especially how it implemented error
correction :-)
Cheers,
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