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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: defining "software"
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Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 15:07:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 15:07:19 1984
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook
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> ... one of the serious problems in defining software lies in
> distinguishing it from data.  It is the failure to distinguish
> software and data that, in my view, leads to such vagueness as
> calling a record or a Compact Disk, "software".

Hmmm ... but try distinguishing program from data in, say, lisp or Prolog!
-- 
Saumya Debray, 	SUNY at Stony Brook

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