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found: Wikipedia, via WWW, Aug. 9, 2006(Computer software ... Practical computer systems divide software into three major classes: system software, programming software and application software, although the distinction is somewhat arbitrary, and often blurred ... Programming software usually provides tools to assist a programmer in writing computer programs and software using different programming languages in a more convenient way. The tools include text editors, compilers, interpreters, linkers, debuggers, and so on)
found: ComputersEasy glossary, via WWW, Aug. 9, 2006(programming software -- A type of software used to create all other types of computer programs. It is used to develop and then store the complex sets of instructions that control the computer: every program, including all of the systems and applications programs, and even the programming languages themselves, begin as a set of specific instructions to the computer)
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