The modern art of computer programming combines a special kind of human personality with a special set of tools to produce a rather ghostly product — software — that other human beings find useful.

计算机编程的最新技术将一种特殊的人性与一组特殊的工具结合在一起，用以生产出对其他人非常有帮助的一种神奇的产品，即软件。

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Using the EDSAC he invented subroutines, an essential component of modern programming that allows developers to reuse bits of existing code to simplify the act of writing software.

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