Cooperation
What do computer programmers do?
What programmers mostly do (or should) is cooperate,
and try to reuse existing work instead of doing it over.
The Web itself is a fine example of this.
Lots of programs cooperate to let you read this page.
- Editor
- How I wrote the page,
and later made changes to it.
I didn't have to use the same editor each time,
because this page is written in a portable standard form.
- Server
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Where the page is stored so that people can request it.
- Router
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How your browser request located the server,
and how the server got the results back to the browser.
- Browser
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How you finally view the page.
Again,
any browser should work,
because this page is written in a portable standard form.
