解释一种概念并不比创造一种概念容易,比如《软件工程师》杂志的定位:一直有很多读者和作者朋友问我们:《软件工程师》杂志怎么尽是IT教育培训这类内容?难道你们不知道软件工程师们最关心的是哪些话题吗?为了回答这个问题,我们不妨先绕开对定位的解释,来谈谈对“软件”这一概念的广义理解,也许就会有所启发。 软件和硬件应该是一对相对的概念,在一定范围内,我们可以把任何看不见、摸不着的非硬件都称之为软件,从这种角度出发,不惟软件产品背后的程序代码、网络流淌的比特血液,乃至人的思想、意识和观念等,都可以纳入到软件的范畴之中:如果说代码 Explaining a concept is not as easy as creating a concept such as the position of Software Engineer magazine: there are always readers and author friends asking us: What do Software Engineer magazine do for IT education and training? Do not you know Software engineers are most concerned about what the topic is it? In order to answer this question, we may wish to bypass the interpretation of the positioning, to talk about the concept of “software” broad understanding, may be inspired. Software and hardware should be a relative concept, in a certain range, we can call any invisible, inaccessible non-hardware are called software, from this perspective, not only the software code behind the program, the network flow Bit of blood, and even human thought, awareness and ideas, can be included in the scope of the software: If the code