A platform can be seen both as a constraint on the application development process â the application is written for such-and-such a platform â and an assistance to the development process, in that they provide low-level functionality ready-made. 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.
Pax Romana means roman peace, or literally, the peace of Rome. It lasted roughly 200 years and was a time of prosperity ad relative peace for the empire.
The Pax Romana is said to have been a miracle because prior to it there had never been peace for so many centuries in a given period of history. However, Walter Goffart wrote: The volume of the Cambridge Ancient History for the years A.D. 70â192 is called 'The Imperial Peace', but peace is not what one finds in its pages.