Re: Reminder, blatant ad

"dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1138807556.980279.105260_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> JOG wrote:
> > x wrote:
> > > "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:1138746760.004461.205330_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > > >
> > > > x wrote:
> > > > > The hardware is the material part of a computer.
> > > > > The software is the remainder.
> > > >
> > > > I'm good with that, but then you get back to the question of
software
> > > > developers being those who develop the software and by this
definition
> > > > that would include those who do "data entry" because data and
software
> > > > are together in your definition. Again, I think of data and
software
> > > > together, but I do not think of software developers and end-users of
> > > > software as being one and the same. So, I'm stumped (at least
> > > > temporarily) on the definition of software as in the phrase
"software
> > > > developer." --dawn
> > >
> > > Data entry is the same as data development ?
> >
> > That sounds nonsensical to my ears - one cannot 'develop' data, just as
> > one can't 'develop' a one or a zero.

> Agreed. One can implement systems in a combination of software and
> hardware. But if h/w is what you can weigh (or kick or ...) in a
> computer and s/w is the rest, then what is a s/w developer? If it is
> anyone participating in creating software and the software is
> everything you cannot kick, then a data entry person would be a
> software developer.

No because entry is not developing :-)
The one that do software entry are called software developers ?

To distinguish data from software you can say that the software provide a function and data does not. The data is processed. Received on Wed Feb 01 2006 - 16:58:23 CET