The programming language and its associated software libraries are designed to allow software developers to write programs that can run on otherwise incompatible computers with little modification.

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Java is a widely-used programming language designed to let developers write programs once that can then be run, with minimal changes, on any computer.

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Of the approximately 3, 000 e-commerce application program interfaces, or APIs, that define how to write programs for software and online services, he says, Siri had implemented 45.

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Although the operating system is a little bulkier, developers will be able to write applications to Solaris and assume that the programs can take advantage of the underlying directory services.

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Programmers write small, focused programs to solve problems and generally recognize that lines of code are a cost, not an asset.

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