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This is also why we have many more softwares available now. The improvement in hardware specs are so useful not only because it is faster, but also because we
by cdavid 16y ago
This is also why we have many more softwares available now.
The improvement in hardware specs are so useful not only because it is faster, but also because we can do much more without having to care about the details. Writing tiny, efficient libraries is cool, but it takes a lot of time, everything else being equal, so if you can afford not doing it, you don't.
- gnaritas 16y ago> This is also why we have many more softwares available now. Assuming English isn't your first language, that would be phrased "much more software"; software is always singular.
- cabalamat 16y agoMore precisely, it's a mass noun (as opposed to a count noun). Count noun: a program, some programs Mass noun: some software. (you can't say "a software" or "some softwares")
- w1ntermute 16y agohttp://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/david/ http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/david/ "David Cournapeau a French PhD student in signal processing at Kyoto University" France and Japan...he hasn't exactly been living in places where English is prominently spoken with grammatical accuracy...cut him some slack. In fact, he made the exact same error of pluralizing "software" as "softwares" on his website.
- gnaritas 16y ago> cut him some slack You act as if I'm giving him a hard time, I'm not. I've generally found multi-lingual people want to be corrected when they do it wrong because they find it helpful; I was doing him a favor.
- cdavid 16y agoThanks for the correction (but I guess the correction still stand even if English were my first language).