它们是写程序的程序。

They are programs that write programs.

youdao

写程序的程序？

Programs that write programs?

youdao

说点题外话，我承认这是一个完全无用的程序，跟我们之前写的两个程序一样,我们为什么需要写个程序来解决这个数学运算呢？

Now as an aside, I'll admit this is a completely useless program, much like the first couple of ones we did because why would you write a program just to solve this?

youdao

It gives you a lot of expressive convenience, you can write the programs much more cleanly, but most importantly, it's fast.

你可以把一些程序写的更清楚，最重要的是，它的效率非常高。

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It's because the programmer or programmers that wrote that software might have been pretty specific but not specific enough.

这是因为程序员写的软件,可能已经相当具体,但还是不够具体。

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So let me just to try something a little more interesting, and then we'll get to writing some simple programs.

让我们来试试更加有趣的,一些事情吧，然后,我们再去写一些简单的小程序。

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