There are a number of situations in software engineering when it is important for disparate groups of programmers to agree to a "contract" that spells out how their software interacts.

在软件工程的很多情形中，不想干的小组或程序员达成一致的合约(合约用于阐述软件如何交互)是非常重要的。

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Trip Hawkins, who is the original founder of EA and was the man behind the concept of the game (he convinced John Madden to come on board), has said that Antonick was not the person driving the game and that EA dropped him as a contract worker when the industry upgraded to 16-Bit consoles because the job required the skills of more advanced programmers.

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