What is the difference between script and software?
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(countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.
Written characters; style of writing.
(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
(countable, legal) An original instrument or document.
(countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.
(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
(linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
An abbreviation for a prescription.
(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
* 1958 , John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
* 1995 , Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ :
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In computing terms the difference between script and software
is that script is a file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence while software is encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.As nouns the difference between script and software
is that script is a writing; a written document while software is encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.As a verb script
is to make or write a script.script
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(wikipedia)(Scripting language) (en noun)Synonyms
* (writing) cursive, hand, handwriting, manuscript * (typography) cursive type, typeface, face, or font * (computing) batch file, macro, shell script * (linguistics) language script, writing systemHyponyms
* (text for drama) screenplay * (text for drama) teleplayDerived terms
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(-)- The "software " comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
- As originally conceived, the word "software " was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."