On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:20 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Defining a program as not a program seems absurd and the other one is just fun because of the types of hardware it allows to be called software.
So is it the types of hardware that could also be software, or is hardware != software axiomatic for you?
I'm not sure defining a program as not a program is necessarily absurd; I can think of "programs" for digital computers that I would label as a "program" (e.g., doing multiplication on an abacus), so I wouldn't be surprised if it were true also for analogue computers.
Cheers,
Alex.