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Two thoughts:

1) Which software does something other than merely operating on given inputs and deterministically generating text, graphics, or more generally, colored squares? I think that description fully characterizes all non-hardware-driving code.

2) Web apps do more than generate text. They modify stored data in domain-specific ways, and ultimately that data is what's important -- it's everything from opinions to orders.



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