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In general, a program is just a canned list of instructions.
To ``run a program'' means to execute its list of instructions,
to perform a set pattern of operations. A program can also be
viewed as an entity that performs
processing that transforms
input data into
output data. A simple program might do
something like balance your checkbook or deal a duplicate
bridge hand. At the other end of the scale, all of the large
software
packages on a computer system are really
just large programs and collections of programs.
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Last updated: 1995/12/01 02:12:58 UT
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