[Haskell-cafe] ANN: AC-Vector, AC-Colour and AC-EasyRaster-GTK

Richard O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Sat Jul 18 00:27:44 EDT 2009


On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Probably just because British English took it from American English.  
> It’s
> similar to the “German” word “Computer”. It’s not native.

The spelling "program" goes back to 1633 at least;
it cannot then have referred to computers, and is
not likely to have been an American import.




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