| sili | sure. |
| idiocrash | s/program/script |
| Supaplex | s/perl program/slashcode/ |
| idiocrash | Technically, the software would be the interpreter itself, wouldn't it? |
| Supaplex | it's all soft. |
| idiocrash | So is a text file also software? A flat file for example? |
| cloaked | yup I'd say so |
| Khisanth | data != instructions :) |
| idiocrash | ...or is software simply a set of instructions that is compiled/interpreted? |
| Khisanth | executing your data as instructions can lead to bad things |
| bpalmer | Khisanth: what do CR and LF indicate to you? |
| Khisanth | bpalmer: bytes of data |
| bpalmer | ok, what is an instruction that's not a byte of data? |
| idiocrash | exactly |
| Khisanth | meh this is definitely one conversation I have no intention of continuing with today :) |
| idiocrash | I've often wondered if my perl scripts could be considered software. Maybe it's a text file when at rest, and then becomes software when interpreted. There! A compromise! |
| Khisanth | compromises are people who can't decide! |
| idiocrash | Methnks a compromise may be more reflective of real life - a world where everything's gray, until some arbitrating force enters the mix. ... I guess that's "relativity"? |
| Supaplex | I call it nonsense |
| idiocrash | Hey, that's life! |
| simcop2387 | merlyn's on slashdot! http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/02/0117257 |
| idiocrash | djoo guys hear about Randal Schwartz? |
| garywsmith | you mean that guy who was convicted of hacking passwords |
| idiocrash | yeah |
| garywsmith | no |
| idiocrash | The charges for that "crime" have been expunged FINALLY |
| garywsmith | idiocrash: You haven't been paying much attention to the thread here... |
| idiocrash | I joined not long ago |
| Paladin | idiocrash: yes, merlyn is a regular here.. most of us have heard from him.. |
| garywsmith | scroll up like 10 lines. |
| idiocrash | no shit?? |
| garywsmith | somewhere between idiocrash: hey' that's life: and idiocrash: djoo... (since there's only one other entry, it might be easy to find. :) |
| idiocrash | hey, I'm new here |