Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sbcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!debray From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: defining "software" Message-ID: <102@sbcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 15:07:19 EDT Article-I.D.: sbcs.102 Posted: Thu Oct 18 15:07:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 02:10:20 EDT References: <1123@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook Lines: 14 > ... 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 uucp: {cbosgd, decvax, ihnp4, mcvax, cmcl2}!philabs \ {amd, akgua, decwrl, utzoo}!allegra > !sbcs!debray {tektronix, metheus}!ogcvax / CSNet: debray%suny-sbcs@CSNet-Relay