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Subject:Def Needed: System vs Application From:Phil Hellerman <Phil -dot- Hellerman -at- MCI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 4 Oct 1996 14:59:51 -0500
I am developing documentation for software that plans network capacity
for a telecom application. The software performs a variety of functions.
Evidently (just getting started documenting) developers coded each
function individually.
Do I have a system or an application? If I have a system, then I can
easily refer to each function as a sub-system. This sounds and reads
well but is incorrect in its usage. I would use the term application
(shich is correct) in place of system but what do I call the functions;
sub-applications, functions?
And by the way, you can send for my video (MC, VISA and AE accepted).
Its 19.95 and it describes my sure-fire way to sell freezers to the
eskimos and swamp land in Arizona. I knows it works because I am a
zillionaire and I only write because it is fun. I always wanted to know
who watched and responded to infomercials on late-night tv.
