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--- Forwarded Message from Barbara Siennicki <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:49:52 -0800
>From: Barbara Siennicki <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: The University of British Columbia
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7038.1 software or program? (!)
>References: <[log in to unmask]>
The software/program question takes me to my favourite website:
webopedia.com -- and this is what it suggests:
Program: (n) An organized list of instructions that, when
executed, causes the computer to behave in a predetermined manner.
Without programs, computers are useless. A program is like a recipe. It
contains a list of ingredients (called variables) and a list of
directions (called statements) that tell the computer what to do with the
variables. The variables can represent numeric data, text, or graphical
images. . .
When you buy software, you normally buy an
executable version of a program. This means that the program is already
in machine language -- it has already been compiled and assembled and is
ready to execute.
LLTI-Editor wrote:
> --- Forwarded Message from "David Flores" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:52:14 -0500
> >From: "David Flores" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: #7038 software or program?
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> David Flores
> Director: Language Learning Center
> Loyola College in Maryland
> 4501 North Charles Street
> Baltimore, MD 21210
> Ph: (410) 617-5230
> Fax: (410) 617 2859
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> --- Forwarded Message from Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:02:41 -0500
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >From: Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: software or program?
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> Greetings, colleagues,
>
> Here's a little conundrum for this slow time:
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> 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.
>
> Why not call it an "Interactive CD-Rom."
>
> -Dave
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