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Re:Early vs. Beginning Coders by FigBug on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @09:30PM (#9736260)
I was recently working on a case and I need a definition of software library. Couldn't find one anywhere. So many of the basics of programming are undefined it makes arguing about programming incredibly difficult -- see every discussion of what a functional language is or strong vs weak typing.
Re:Early vs. Beginning Coders by greenyoda on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:29AM (#9736846)
Wikipedia has an article on libraries, which includes the following definition:

"In computer science, a library is a collection of implementations of behavior, written in terms of a language, that has a well-defined interface by which the behavior is invoked."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_%28computing%29