Software, Abstraction, And Ontology.
Analyzes the philosophical and practical assumptions underlying claims for the dual nature of software. Software as a machine made of text and as a concrete abstraction; Comparative examination of the nature of abstraction in mathematics and computer science; Relationship between the concrete and t...
| Published in: | Monist Vol. 82; no. 1; pp. 3 - 20 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan1999
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| Summary: | Analyzes the philosophical and practical assumptions underlying claims for the dual nature of software. Software as a machine made of text and as a concrete abstraction; Comparative examination of the nature of abstraction in mathematics and computer science; Relationship between the concrete and the abstract in computer programs. |
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