(August 2010). A computing platform is, in the most general sense, whatever pre-existing environment a piece of computer software or code object is designed to run within, obeying its constraints, and making use of its facilities. An application, such as a spreadsheet or word processor, which hosts software written in an application-specific scripting language, such as an Excel macro. 2  This can be extended to writing fully-fledged applications with the Microsoft Office suite as a platform.
So far it's taken approximately 1,009,491 days to build Rome. This is based on the traditional founding of the city (21 April 753 BCE), but we should also consider that the city has been sacked and rebuilt several times. Views Â· View Upvotes.
Rome really came into prominence by becoming an empire after the second Punic war which ended in 201 BC. The date given for the fall of the western part of the empire is 476 Aâ¦D. So you could say that Rome ruled the western world for about 676 years. This is just a ball park figure because Rome had been expanding to an extent, before the Punic wars.