--- Forwarded Message from "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:12:02 -0600
>From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7038 software or program?

How about a "New Age Book" <grin>

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--- Forwarded Message from Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:02:41 -0500
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>From: Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: software or program?

Greetings, colleagues,

Here's a little conundrum for this slow time:

A colleague is currently developing a "THING" that will help students
learn idioms. It works on a computer. It is interactive and is
multi-media based. It will be stored on a CD-ROM. What shall the
colleague call this thing? Is it software or is it a program?
Dictionaries seem to make no distinction.

(Later on, when this colleague is up for tenure, what kind of
publication would this be called?)

Thanks in advance for what I hope will be an interesting discussion.
--
Ursula Williams

Director, Language Resource Center
http://www.nd.edu/~lrc
201 O'Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, In 46556
574.631.5881