WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY APPLICATION SOFTWARE? EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE?
Application Software: Application Software is a set of programs to carry out operations for a specific application. For example, payroll is an application software for an organization to produce pay slips as an output. Application software is useful for word processing, billing system, accounting, producing statistical report, analysis of numerous data in research, weather forecasting, etc.
MS WORD, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBASE III Plus. All these are application software's
Another Example of application software is programming language. Among the programming languages COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) is more suitable for business application whereas FORTRAN (Formula Translation) is useful for scientific application. We will discuss about languages in next section.
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