Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer. Software can be defined broadly to include design documents, specifications, and testing suites.
The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital computers in the mid-20th century. Early programs were written in machine language specific to the hardware, but the introduction of high-level programming languages in the 1950s allowed for more human-readable instructions, making software development easier and more portable across systems. Compilers, or... more
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