Word processing program is an example of a software. All the others,
such as Printer, Keyboard and Mouse are examples of Computer peripheral
devices or in short hardware devices. Generally these listed hardware
devices come under input or output computer device category. Also, by
classic meaning in layman terms these hardware components can be touched
or felt. In contrast, a word processing program is a part of a computer
system that consists of data or computing instructions and provides the
mechanism to computer to perform a certain task utilizing it's hardware
resources. Such components of computer system which are written using
one of the computer languages are called computer software or software
programs or simply software.
