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1.2 The relation between computerized accounting and web-based technology<br />

There are quite a few researchers or software developers who consider that there are<br />

no differences between accounting software and web-based accounting. It is<br />

considered that both systems do the same thing, the difference coming from the<br />

preferred work mode: local or web-based. This because in the specialist literature the<br />

analysis of the evolution of accounting software is done from the perspective of the<br />

evolution in hardware and less regarding the evolution of the programming languages<br />

(Deshmukh, 2006). We do not deny the existence of a correlation between the<br />

development (history) of accounting software and the evolution concerning the<br />

computer world (hardware) but we consider that more attention should be paid to the<br />

studying of accounting software correlated to that of the programming languages<br />

when we analyze the web-based accounting.<br />

If we observe well, there is no great difference between these two terms, both have a<br />

common term, that of program or programming, the difference lying in the fact that<br />

the first expresses calculations that can be done by a computer and the second<br />

supplies instructions and tells a computer what it has to do. In other words, the<br />

language creates the frame and the software populates this frame. The software can be<br />

regarded as a written program, using the programming language, used by the<br />

computer to be able to work. There is a great overlap between these two terms.<br />

Neither can work without the support of the other just as the software can not work<br />

without the hardware. In particularly, the accounting software is “a software which<br />

deals with the accounting functions and the financial part” (Deshmukh, 2006).<br />

One may notice that programming languages destined to be used at the beginning of<br />

the computer era mainly for writing accounting programs like ABLE, Dexterity and<br />

even COBOL, Assembler, FORTRAN, RPG for mainframe or Basic, Pascal or dBase<br />

II for PC are no longer in use today, being gradually replaced by more flexible<br />

languages used mainly to deal with programming in the system Client-Server, Local<br />

Area Networks, Wide Area Networks.<br />

According to some studies it was noticed that the most popular programming<br />

languages used today would be (chart 1): C, Java, C++, JavaScript, Pyton, etc.<br />

Chart 1. The most popular programming languages used today<br />

(Source: http://langpop.com/)<br />

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