What's the (practical) definition of software(programming) framework?

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Published on 2010-04-03T17:48:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 17:53 UTC
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The article in wikipedia seems too verbose.

I understand framework as a well designed set of libraries and tools. The Qt framework provides a set of libraries/tools for cross platform GUIs. The cocoa framework does the same thing for Mac.

What do you think the practical definition of software framework?

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