11.   And that tempts programmers to pay less attention to the Mac and write software for Windows PCs.

12.   Another explains the way software is written.

13.   Artists are becoming technicians again as they were in Renaissance days, he said, because they must learn to write software and operate the more sophisticated computers.

14.   At one site, www.sweepstakesonline.com, the owner, Mike Reilly, has written software, Autosweep Desktop, that automatically fills in contest entry blanks.

15.   Automation Atwork, which writes software for patient and employee scheduling.

16.   BaliCamp, he hopes, will serve as a programming colony, where computing talent from Indonesia and abroad can write software for companies worldwide.

17.   Beijing, infuriated to learn that Microsoft had used computer programmers in Taiwan to write the software, demanded that the company hire mainland programmers to fix it.

18.   Borland, which publishes software that helps professional programmers write other software, said its Delphi programming tool is selling slower than expected.

19.   Borland said sales of some of its programming tools --software that helps computer programmers write other software --were slower than expected.

20.   A plan to buy Open Environment Corp., whose products help programmers write software for computer networks, would help the latter business.