Re: Definitions of Software and Database


"JOG" <jog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well is a database not merely a physical implementation of an abstract
data model? Define that and one's going in the right direction to
defining the purpose of that specific type of software.

Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
A software developer is a person capable of arranging a collection of
ones and zeroes in such a way as to bend a thinking stone to obey his
will.

simply brilliant.

If software did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.


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