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What Is Software Anyways? Where Does It Exist?


For this next paper, we are looking at a question I'm sure many will think is pointless. What exactly is software? But by this, we mean something a bit different than offering a definition.

Put simply it says that if you have potentially two objects X and Y, X is identical to Y just in the case that X has all the same properties as Y and vice versa. In the paper, Irmak gets into versioning, but as this summary is going a bit long, I will completely alide that discussion. Now this may seem all a bit weird, but Irmak shows us that software isn't necessarily alone in this regard.

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