Re: Inconsistencies in our approach
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 12:49:56 +0900 (IRKST), Fedor Zuev <fedor@earth.crust.irk.ru> said:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, John Goerzen wrote:
JG> Documentation consists of instructions primarily intended to be
JG> human-readable regarding the operation of something such as a
JG> program.
JG> Programs consist of instructions primarily intended to be
JG> machine-readable that either contain machine language binary data
JG> or instructions designed to be interpreted or converted into that
JG> at runtime. Programs will always contain source code or machine
JG> language code, and often both.
> Hmmm.
> My suggestion:
> 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.
> Data primarily intended to describe itself to human reader
> is a documentation.
What do you do if the same collection of bits performs each of
these functions?
manoj
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