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by anthk 558 days ago
Lots of software doesn't run on a computer.
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Do you mean written down code? I think that deciding whether that's software is debatable. Other than that I can't think of anything that doesn't run on a computer that can be called software. Unless you want to be pedantic and say 'this program doesn't run on a computer, it gets compiled down into machine code. The machine code runs on a computer.'
So what?

* Bad instructions that the computer can't execute are still instructions for the computer to execute, they're just bad ones.

* And if they're only printed in a textbook and never actually entered into a code editor, they exist only on the printed page.

So what you said doesn't invalidate the GP in the slightest.