WHAT IS SOFTWARE
As the world has evolved and brought computers well
into everyday life, they have effectively changed the way we live and operate.
We now use computers for pretty much everything, school, work, and recreational
activities; there isn’t anything a computer can’t do for most people.
However since
no one like’s simple to the point answers, we shall delve into it deeper. There
are literally dozens of different programming languages, and this is if you
don’t include those used for web based development, like HTML, JavaScript, PHP,
MySQL, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails and CSS. While all of these languages are
different in terms of syntax, built in functionality and level at which they
function they were all conceived and developed with the same exact goal in mind,
to help create software and to let us build the functionality we want into our
systems through this software.
Every time you use a computer you’re at least using one piece of software,
and ultimately hundreds more. For starters, your operating system, w
hether
it be Microsoft Windows, Apples OSX, or a Linux/BSD distro, is a piece of
software, and at that the most important piece of software, even though it is
built up of other tinnier pieces of software.The reason
why software is so important is because it’s the key to unlocking computers
functionality. There are applications for pretty much every purpose. And for the
times there isn’t an application, making one is always an option.
