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Few pieces of software run in total isolation. Most talk to various other processes and programs on your system. This is particularly true on open source systems (where licensing is less of an issue), because there is often little point in reinventing the wheel when, with minimal effort, you can simply call upon other existing software and libraries to perform tasks that are already a “solved problem.”
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Aley, R. (2016). Interacting with Other Software. In: PHP Beyond the Web. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2481-6_7
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