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Nowadays people are very familiar with the idea of the technical highway。 Advancement in the science and technology has injected tremendous energy into the development of our civilization。 And language also benefits from these achievements。 Technical advancements in a society have a great demand for new term。 Scientific and technological progress account for the appearance of a majority of new words; we must use a new name to refer to a new thing, for instance, motor, argon, and appendicitis。

The word software can be taken for example。 As early as 1958, John。 W。 Tukey first used the word in the American Mathematical Monthly。 Nowadays the software which is composed of the well planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automotive programming are as essential to the modern electronic calculator as its hardware, etc。