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Who used the term" software" first?

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John W. Tukey
The first published use of the term "software" in a computing context is often credited to American statistician John W. Tukey, who published the term in "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics," American Mathematical Monthly, January 9, 1958.
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The answer is John W. Tukey

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