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{{Infobox company

| name = World Programming

| logo = [[Image:World Programming.png]]

| type = Private Limited Company

| foundation = 2000

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| industry = [[Software]]

| products = [[World Programming System|WPS]]

| homepage = [httphttps://www.worldprogramming.com www.worldprogramming.com] |

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'''World Programming''' is a private limited company headquartered in the [[United Kingdom|UK]].

They tend to develop and distribute software products concerned with [[numerical analysis]], [[business intelligence]] and data distribution.

The company's main software products is the [[World Programming System]] (WPS or WPS Analytics).<ref>{{Cite web |url=httphttps://www.worldprogramming.com/about_us/company |title=www.worldprogramming.com/about_us/company |accessdate=32 FebruaryJune 20122016 |author=World Programming Ltd |date=2 FebruaryJune 20122016}}</ref> The software was the subject of [[SAS Institute lawsuit with World Programming|a lawsuit by SAS Institute]]. The [[European Court of Justice|EU Court of Justice]] ruled in favor of World Programming, stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality, the programming language used, and the format of the data files used by the program. It stated that there is no copyright infringement, when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies, observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality.<ref>{{cite news | url = httphttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-02/copyright-can-t-block-software-reverse-engineering-court.html | title = Copyright Can't Block Software Reverse Engineering: Court | author = Aoife White | publisher = Bloomberg | date = 2012-05-02 | accessdate = 2012-05-02 }}</ref>

In December 2021, [[Altair Engineering]] announced that it would acquire World Programming on 15 December 2021.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.altair.com/newsroom/news-releases/altair-acquires-world-programming-to-advance-organizations-digital-transformation/ | title = Altair Acquires World Programming to Advance Organizations’ Digital Transformation | author = Altair Newsroom| publisher = Altair Engineering | date = 2021-12-15 | accessdate = 2021-12-15 }}</ref>

==See also==

* [[World Programming System|WPS]]

== References ==

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== External links ==

*[http://www.worldprogramming.com World Programming web site]

[[Category:Software companies of the United Kingdom]]