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| - | # Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as [[ROM]]). Compare [[hardware]]. | + | |
| - | #* '''1958''': The "'''[[software]]'''" comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like. — ''The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics'', John W. Tukey, in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9. | + | '''Computer software''', or simply '''software''', refers to the non-tangible components of [[computer]]s, known as [[computer program]]s. The term is used to contrast with [[computer hardware]], which denotes the physical tangible components of computers. It may be used as an [[adjective]] to mean "non-tangible component" or as a [[group noun]] to mean "all computer programs when taken as a whole". Computer hardware and software require each other and neither can be realistically used without the other. |
| - | #* '''1953''' As originally conceived, the word "'''software'''" was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware." Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ by Paul Niquette ISBN 1-58922-233-http://niquette.com/books/softword/part0.htm | + | |
| + | == See also == | ||
| + | * [[Software release life cycle]] | ||
| + | * [[List of software]] | ||
| + | * [[Soft]] | ||
| + | * [[Ware]] | ||
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Computer software, or simply software, refers to the non-tangible components of computers, known as computer programs. The term is used to contrast with computer hardware, which denotes the physical tangible components of computers. It may be used as an adjective to mean "non-tangible component" or as a group noun to mean "all computer programs when taken as a whole". Computer hardware and software require each other and neither can be realistically used without the other.
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