the invention of the term software

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"Today the `software' comprising the carefully planned interpretive
routines, compilers, and other aspects of automating programming are
at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its 
`hardware' of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes, and the like."

--- John Tukey (the statistician and inventor of the FFT), writing
in the American Mathematical Monthly in January 1958
 

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