Re: Inconsistencies in our approach
Apologies for the bad Orig:Quote ratio.
Fedor Zuev <fedor@earth.crust.irk.ru> wrote:
> Software "is a set of statements" primarily intended to
> perform some operations on the some set of input information "in
> order to bring about a certain result" with this information.
> Regardless of the way it does so.
>
> Data "is a set of statements" primarily intended to describe
> itself (as such) to a reader, be latter the human or the program.
> Regardless of the way it does so.
I believe these are not exclusive or exhaustive, but it all hinges on
your decisions on "primarily" which is highly subjective. Is a
dual-purpose item primarily intended for one thing or another?
> Data primarily intended to describe itself to human reader
> is a documentation.
Itself?
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