Re: Definitions of Software and Database

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:58:39 +0100
Message-ID: <43e4964f$0$11062$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

dawn wrote:
> Bob Hairgrove wrote:

>>dawn wrote:
>>
>>>If your data contains variables or if it can only be accessed through
>>>functions that determine its representation based in its type or other
>>>information, is it software?
>>
>>You seem to be trying to make a distinction between "data" and
>>"software". I think this will ultimately lead you astray. Software is
>>always data!

>
> That is my thinking as well. But then I get to the term "software
> developer" which someone then pointed out would make a "data entry"
> person a software developer, perhaps? Is there a distinction between a
> software developer and a data entry clerk?

Source automation activities of software developers help extinguish data entry as a separate job without endangering software development as a separate job.

[snip] Received on Sat Feb 04 2006 - 05:58:39 CST